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Augustus' legitimacy problem is that Caesar and Augustus do not descend from the two major Roman founding myths, so a deeper Julii ancestry must be constructed through Aeneas.
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Augustus' legitimacy problem is that Caesar and Augustus do not descend from the two major Roman founding myths, so a deeper Julii ancestry must be constructed through Aeneas.
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In Jiang's framework, the Aeneid answers Augustus' three challenges by establishing Julii primacy, replacing liberty with piety, and showing Greek culture as corrupt hedonism to be repelled.
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"army and they serve like 20 years or 30 years they're all paid by one man the Emperor through his land holdings in Egypt..."
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"...construct a new myth that shows that his family, called the Julii, go way back. They go back, they go back to before Romulus,..."
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"So, in other words, Romulus is descended from Aeneas, but Julius Caesar is also descended from Aeneas. Okay? So, that is how Augustus Caesar..."
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"So he invited a man named Virgil, who at this time is considered the greatest man in the world. He invited this living Roman..."
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"It will establish a new Roman cultural identity focused on Rome. piety over liberty and it will show that Greek culture is one of..."
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"...Julius Caesar comes from a very prestigious Roman family called the Julii."
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