portrayal of augustus + rome

Question 1

quote about aen’s diplomacy

Answer 1

book 12 “rejoicing that the war was being settled by the treaty he had proposed”

mirror aug’s establishment of the pax romana, and also link to the return of the parthian standards, a context which virgil lived through

Question 2

“people who were meant to live peacefully clashed in bitter war”

Answer 2

book 12, virgil’s interjection laments the cost of empire-building, paralleling rome’s civil wars which were driven by augustus

Question 4

jupiter’s prophecy book 1

Answer 4

“from them will come a race […] that will bring the whole world under its laws”
= rome’s power is divinely sanctioned

Question 5

anchises’ vision of rome’s future book 6

Answer 5

“your task, roman, is to impose peace”
= rome is not just about conquest but order

Question 6

the shield of aeneas book 8

Answer 6

“augustus stands trumphant”
links aen’s struggles to aug’s rule

Question 7

the future of rome imagery book 1

Answer 7

“empire bound only by oceanus and the limits of the world” = limitless expansion and prosperity