... Caesar, with him, a new patriotism overwhelms Virgil, and his entire generation is experiencing the greatest height of their civilization. What Virgil felt was the one triumph his Empire lacked was its own epic, a tale embodying the Roman spirit, virtue and justifying its greatness. What Homer achieved for the Greeks with the Iliad and the Odyssey, so Virgil would do the same? He immediately set to work in his ... well as depicting an early conflict between Carthage's founder, Dido and Aeneas. He did so by telling of a failed love between the two. Moreover, Virgil introduces a Romance in...

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