Virgil's Aeneid Propaganda

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Virgil’s Aeneid, known as one of the greatest poems from the classical age, was masterfully crafted to contain elements of state propaganda, but also to stand the test of time and remain as a brilliant story. Virgil uses the epic of Aeneas to justify the actions of the Roman Empire by formulating the Aeneid to show how fate had decreed what would happen to Rome. Through the Aeneid, Virgil bound Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues, and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty and Augustus rein as descendants of the founders, gods, and heroes of Rome and Troy. The Aeneid was written when both major political and social changes were recreating Rome. After the Republic fell and Octavian defeated Mark Anthony and Cleopatra

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