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. ... But, in one of a few areas of the poem that lacks consistency (Virgil never lived to fully complete his epic), Juno declares that she wishes to "quit these battles which I so detest.... " Unfortunately for the Trojans, Paris, the adulterous and effeminate Trojan prince of the Epic Cycle, is often used as an example of his race as an insult to the Trojans and their l...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate