Since its first appearance in 2008 this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgils three poems it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of his ruler Octavian-Augustus It refreshes the study of Virgils poetry by comparing it with the detail normally neglected by scholars of Romes civil wars after Julius Caesars death when Octavi...