Lavinia is a Locus Award-winning[1] novel by American author Ursula K. Le Guin.

It is written in a first-person, self-conscious style that recounts the life of Lavinia, a minor character in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid.

Aeneas's elder son Ascanius founds Alba Longa and marries but fails to produce an heir.

It is written in a first-person style, and the character Lavinia is aware that she may only exist in the context of a story which an outside narrator is recounting.

That Priam's nephew Aeneas of Troy had anything at all to do with the founding of Rome is pure legend, a good deal of it invented by Virgil himself".