In doing so Virgil consciously creates the national epic of Rome, posits a semi-divine lineage for the Imperial house of Augustus Caesar, and provides an origin for the Roman people. In the Aeneid, Virgil retells, and partially invents, the story of Aeneas, the son of Anchises and the goddess Venus-Aphrodite who, fleeing the ruins of Troy carrying his father on his shoulders, and bearing his household gods, journeyed to Italy. The epic poem of Aeneas of Troy, and the origins of Rome. The poetic treatise on farming in four books. The ten bucolic poems freely imitating Theocritus' Idylls, and creating a pastoral world of love and song.
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