to linsey vestal i'm a student and can offer some amateur assistance with the first question
Virgil was friends and had the patronage of Augustus i'm not saying it was political propaganda but it was probably personal propaganda by virgil he'd lived through 20 yrs of civil war and Augustus had finally brought peace in the book Caesar is said to have descended from Iulus Aeneas's son Aeneas was the son of Venus and so it gave the romans a lineage to be proud of also Aeneas was pious.He went through much suffering for the good of the country he would found later he was a great role model for the romans also his fidelity,his pietas is something to be follwed i hope this helps gotta go got a driving lesson au revoir selina ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
