Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin

Just finished this today on Bart and writing about it now on Bart.
This is kind of "another side" of the story of Vergil's Aeneid - the
voice of Lavinia - who is fated to marry "a foreigner" who turns out
to be Aeneas - of course all kinds of war ensues since all the locals
wanted to marry her too.

Vastly over-simplified, of course.

I thought the more interesting part is the first third or so before
Aeneas even shows up.

Lavinia winds up "meeting" the poet in one of her family's sacred
groves... And thusly she trusts the prediction of the oracles (knowing
that the whole story is a fiction anyway from the mind of the poet).

So that part actually a lot more fascinating than all the war and all
in the rest of the book. Of course the whole thing great because it
is Le Guin.

Also there seemed to be some common threads with Lavinia and her poet
meeting in the forest, and the Red Magician in Lisa Goldstein's book
that I just finished. Who talked with her main character also in the
woods.