Federico Baroccio, Aeneas' Flight from Troy, 1598

Rome, Galleria Borghese, Scipione Borghese Collection, 68

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The age of Augustus was defined by the ending of two generations of civil war – brutal, bitter; Roman upon Roman.

The poet Virgil not only provided a salve to the sources of strife, but also explained the reason for it. Rome had a destiny – manifest destiny, in fact. Through his hero, we discover the divinely-ordained future of the Roman Empire. More than that, we are treated to an epic in Latin verse which has endured and inspired down to our own time.

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