Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin
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A late career delight from a past master re-telling the story of Virgil's Aeneid from the perspective of Lavinia, the Latin princess who Aeneas marries late in the story. As the narrative makes pains to note, Lavinia is barely there in the original epic which gives the author significant freedom to work, and she doesn't waste a moment! The work is equal parts historical fiction and magical realist family drama, and the result is a beautifully drawn portrait of both human relationships and ancient Latium.
However, I must concede that I am, more or less, the exact target audience for this book. I've studied ancient Rome deeply, and read the Aenied several times, including translating about a third of it from Latin. I'm also a big fan of Le Guin's "ethnographic" style of fiction writing, and seeing it applied to a real historical culture that I know well (as opposed to fictional alien cultures) provided a special pleasure.
Even adjusting for my obvious enthusiasm, I think a reader unfamiliar with the Aeneid could do worse than to learn about it from this book. She takes not only the plot but the literary features of the original seriously and manages, by some incredible sleight of hand, to recontextualize the original without doing violence to its emphasis or preoccupations.
In short, it's a remarkable work. While it is far from the first attempt at a feminist reimagining of ancient myth, it is a very accomplished one. You can see its stylistic imprint on other more recent examples, such as Madeline Miller's excellent Circe. Cheerfully recommended.