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Leaving Cert Classical Studies: Aeneid as Augustan propaganda

How often Aeneid as Augustan propaganda comes up on the Classical Studies papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

HL Asked on 2 of the last 3 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Aeneid as Augustan propaganda, Higher Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Aeneid as Augustan propaganda.

(a)Who was Virgil's patron and Augustus' adviser on the arts?
  1. Crassus
  2. Maecenas
  3. Sulla
(b)Why do many readers see Cleopatra behind Virgil's Dido?
  1. She is Juno's own daughter, sent to trap the hero
  2. She helps Aeneas to found Rome and becomes his wife
  3. A foreign African queen who lures a Roman leader from duty
(c)Which name of Ascanius links Augustus' family to Aeneas?
  1. Iulus
  2. Romulus
  3. Silvius
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(a) Maecenas

(b) A foreign African queen who lures a Roman leader from duty

(c) Iulus

Your turn: Higher Level questions on Aeneid as Augustan propaganda.

Higher Level

Asked on 2 of the last 3 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2025Q3
2024Not asked
2023Q9

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More Aeneid as Augustan propaganda questions

Aeneid as Augustan propaganda, 2 marks

Virgil asked on his deathbed that the unfinished Aeneid be burnt. Who overruled him?

  1. Maecenas
  2. Horace
  3. Augustus
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Augustus

According to ancient Lives of Virgil, Augustus had the poem published by Virgil's friends Varius and Tucca. The emperor clearly valued the national epic.

Aeneid as Augustan propaganda, 3 marks

How does Aeneas' pietas serve Augustus' programme?

  1. It praises Mark Antony's loyalty to his friends
  2. It models the duty and old religion Augustus promoted
  3. It mocks the marriage laws Augustus brought in
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It models the duty and old religion Augustus promoted

Augustus restored temples and promoted traditional morals and family duty. A hero defined by duty to the gods, family and state mirrors the values of the new regime.

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