The Aeneid, an Epic poem by Virgil, was written between 29 and 19 BC and was published in the year 1557. Virgil’s work was received graciously by the literate class of the time, and he was regarded as the most important writer in the ancient past. This significant appreciation of him was due to the clever and detailed way the Aeneid was written. The pleasing reception of Virgil’s work showed that some people of that time had begun to accept peace as a new mode of life, after centuries of wars from different powers that existed and threatened to defeat them – just like how it was for Aeneas in the end of the epic poem. And it also proves that the literate class in the ancient time had a fine taste for wonderfully made epics, where human emotions are …show more content…
As the work was written in a time of a crucial political and social change in Rome, many of the Romans faith in the greatness of Rome was wavering, but Augustus Caesar had quickly started a new period of harmonious relations and prosperity through introducing anew the traditional Roman values, as what the Aeneid seems to reflect. Influencing them that peace can be attained in a bloodless method contrary to what they were used to.
The work urged the acceptance of fate, stressing that many events in a person’s life is preordained or was already determined beforehand by the gods. Virgil tried to instill in the Romans’ minds that as Aeneas had a destiny to fulfill – becoming the ancestor of a great line – Augustus was also destined to be their leader and that everyone just had to accept the events that may unfold for this was all for the greater