Your best way to approach this is to look at things which Augustus himself
promoted about himself (e.g. as seen in his Res Gestae ... read between the
lines a bit, e.g., in regards to his role in the civil war ... how does
Augustus portray his role?). At the same time, you should be looking at the
I'm am working on a research paper that hopes to arrive at some
conclusion that relates Augustus patronage of Vergil to the Aeneid. My
feeling is that one of the purposes of writing the Aeneid was so that
the Romans could feel good about themselves, and also that Augustus
would be able to take
One problem I hav ejust discovered with the thesis you proposed is
that it is impossible to say that Virigl wrote the Aneneid
because of Caeser Augustus becuase there is no written sources for
evidence of what Vrigl's motives were for written the epic.
Love
Betseyz
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I'm am working on a research paper that hopes to arrive at some
conclusion that relates Augustus patronage of Vergil to the Aeneid. My
feeling is that one of the purposes of writing the Aeneid was so that
the Romans could
