Augustus also had a great sense of pietas. ... Augustus also saw himself as a founder of Rome. ... Not only does this show that Augustus" power was destined to happen, according to the Aeneid, but it also shows that Aeneas" son Iulus, was also a direct ancestor of the Iulii, the family of Julius Caesar and (by adoption) Augustus himself. This legitimizes Augustus" right to be emperor. ... Augustus). ...
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. ... According to Roman mythology, Augustus Caesar was a descendant of Aeneas, from the stock of the sky-father Jupiter himself. ... Yet his own culture and the city of his Caesar were founded upon success in battle and Virgil therefore depicts war as a way for men to win glory for themselves and their families. ... " Here, Virgil pays tribute to Augustus who had defeated Mar...
