Yep! Hell of a piece though. My favorite bit about that is Augustus quoting from the Aeneid like it’s some big part of Roman tradition to justify his moralizing at others, and not something he literally asked someone to make up. (quoting “Romans, the toga’d race” in derision after seeing middle-upper class citizens not wearing their togas in public)
Fun fact, Virgil was explicitly commissioned by Caesar Augustus to compose the Aeneid as a propaganda piece to justify the new imperial regime.
Yep! Hell of a piece though. My favorite bit about that is Augustus quoting from the Aeneid like it’s some big part of Roman tradition to justify his moralizing at others, and not something he literally asked someone to make up. (quoting “Romans, the toga’d race” in derision after seeing middle-upper class citizens not wearing their togas in public)