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Explain why Virgil was asked to write The Aeneid.

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Virgil wrote the Aeneid to reflect the Roman political stance of his time. ... This mirrors Rome's disestablishment of the republic after the strife of a civil war, and the establishment of peace and prosperity with the new Roman Empire
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