... apart as loved ones set out in search of kleos yet, inevitably, never return. Virgil condones war for the sake of his patron, Augustus Caesar, whose recent victory at Actium, three years before the creation of Virgil's epic, had quelled the rebellion of the Roman commander Marcus Antonius. ... excellent warrior and fatherly figure, as the consistent use of the stock epithet "Father Aeneas" attests to. According to Roman mythology, Augustus Caesar was a descendant of Aeneas, from the stock of the sky-father Jupiter himself. Jupiter's divine power is often portrayed; even among other gods...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate