Virgil is writing the Aeneid while he is in the court of Augustus, who won the last in a series of civil wars in Rome that destroyed its republican government and created a dictatorship that would last for centuries. ... The real subject of the Aeneid is the origin of Rome and Augustus. ... The Aeneid is written at a time where Augustus had just achieved a victory in the naval battle at Actium, where a lost would have caused permanent disruptions of peace in Rome. ... Not only does this show that Augustus" power was destined to happen, according to the Aeneid, but it also shows that Aeneas"...

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The ancient Romans also believed in polytheism and this derived from myths that had developed to explain the reasons for why things happened the way they did. They believed that several Gods were the cause for things that they could not understand and they went to these Gods for answers. Figures o...

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Gaius Octavius, the great-nephew of Julius Caesar, was born in Rome on the 23rd of September, 63 BC (Southern 1). After Julius Caesar's death on the Ides of March in 44 BC, a struggle for power in Rome ensued, even though 18 year old Octavian was the heir. Marc Antony, a good friend of Julius C...

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