Chapter X

THE AENEID AS THE EPIC OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
I. Modes of national Sentiment expressed in the Aeneid 325-335
Pride of Empire 325
Sense of national continuity 328
Patriotic Italian sentiment 330
Antagonism to other races 333
II. Influence of the Religious Idea of Rome on the 336-347
action of the poem
Roman belief in the ‘Fortuna Urbis’ 336
Idea of ‘Fate’ in the Aeneid 337
Compared with the same idea in Tacitus 339
Origin and meaning of the Roman idea of Fate 340
Influence of this idea on the religious motives of the poem 341
Ethical aspect of religion in the Aeneid 344
III. Place assigned to Augustus in the Aeneid 347-354
Augustus the typical embodiment of Roman imperialism 347
Meaning given by Virgil to his relation to Aeneas 349
Imaginative and ethical value of the idea on which the 352
Aeneid is founded