Political foreshadowing in the Aeneid

Griffin

The chaotic and shameful period of civil wars was giving place to the enlightened supremacy of one man, who would restore peace and order to Rome and the world

Parry

Virgil's administration of the 'First citizen' and his policies is less prominent than the sense of loss in the Aeneid. Reconstruction largely gives way to deconstruction

Tarrant

Augustus and Virgil were quite close and corresponded frequently, so it would have been important for Augustus to be portrayed favourably

Tarrant

The Aeneid is remarkable for the degree to which it engages seriously with the political realities of Virgil's time, but also for the distance that it maintains from those realities