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Virgil's Use Of Propaganda In The Aeneid

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Roman leaders utilized propaganda to project their agenda to an expansive and diverse empire, manipulating the audience to think and behave in a certain manner. Roman coins, shrines and temples such as, Mars Ultor and countless statues were all forms of propaganda and it extended to written forms seen in the works of Augustus, Virgil and Horace. In particular Virgil wrote, Aeneid, the greatest piece of Augustan Propaganda in Ancient Rome. Just as the Romans made use of propaganda to shape perception of ordinary citizens, likewise contemporary artists have projected their own opinions through artwork seen in Brian Moore's graphic posters.

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