... explains through the Aeneid that the underlying purpose for the Trojan War and the life of Aeneas has finally been fulfilled with the reign of Augustus in which the emperor managed to reunite the Roman Empire and bring peace to Italy after a period of constant civil war. This is evidenced in book VI of the Aeneid, which superficially seems like a complete imitation of book XI of the Odyssey. However, as ... Anchises describes "the glory that awaits the Trojan race," (6:896) it becomes ... clear that this poem is anything but a piracy of Homer's epic. Anchises shows Aeneas the glorious ...

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