The Aeneid by Virgil is a grand story of Aeneas’s journey from Troy to Latium, now Italy, where Rome will be founded. Virgil is writing the epic per Augustus’s request. Virgil is writing about history but he is also setting a standard for the Roman populace by showing the Roman value system. He is also saying it was fate that Rome was founded when and how it as founded and that the gods had a role in it. While reading The Aeneid, books one, six, and twelve place the greatest importance on the traditional Roman Value System. The four core values are furor, fides, pietas, and gravitas. Throughout book one Virgil explores two different values from the values system, pietas and furor. Virgil starts the narrative right of the bat with Aeneas exemplifying
