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In The Wake of Aeneas (Aeneid 3.274–88, 3.500–5, 8.200–3)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2009

David West
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Extract

Aeneas is leading the shattered remnants of the Trojans to their new home in Italy. He calls at Actium, the scene of the battle which in 31 B.C. made his descendant Augustus master of the Mediterranean world. How does Virgil seize this opportunity to praise his patron Augustus?

Type
Research Article
Information
Greece & Rome , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , April 1994 , pp. 57 - 61
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1994

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