We've Lost Sa Eneas

It's not that it had been lost by virgil's time, or even shortly afterwards. We shouldn't necessarily think that these poets were inferior just because we've lost them. The few snapshots that we get give a sense quite a sophisticated view. For example, in aneass anales, he told the story of ilia's encounter with mars and her pregnation. This fragment is very famous, and so it's known as alia's dream. It was transmitted to us because of cicero. He quotes it in his work on divination. There's a little bit of a truncating of history there, where you get fa father daughter relationship which models what we know