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📖 **Was ‘Aeneid’ critiquing or glorifying empire?**
_Virgil doesn’t, by any means, invent Aeneas, but he gives Aeneas, who was a relatively minor figure in Homer’s “Iliad,” new primacy at the center of his epic. During Virgil’s time, Augustus emerged, after the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C., as the first emperor of Rome, and it was as this new regime was being consolidated in the 20s B.C. that Virgil wrote “The Aeneid.”_
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/was-aeneid-critiquing-or-glorifying-empire/.
