who was the first emperor of rome whom the aeneid honored?
The Aeneid: A New Epic for a New Age. The Aeneid is an epic poem written by the Roman poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BCE. Virgil composed this epic for his patron, Augustus Caesar, the first Emperor of Rome. Augustus wanted the Romans to have an epic of their own, a story that would be to Rome what the Iliad and Odyssey were to Greece.