premise: Aeneas appeared in an ancient Egyptian epic poem by Homer.
hypothesis: Aeneas . He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer 's Iliad . The Aeneid ( [ ᵻˈniːɪd ] Aeneis [ ae̯ˈneːɪs ] ) is a Latin epic poem , written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC , that tells the legendary story of Aeneas , a Trojan who travelled to Italy , where he became the ancestor of the Romans .