Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Augustus.
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Metamorphoses
Ovid
Ovid ends his song with Augustus guarding earth while Venus stars Julius Caesar — the princeps as the last metamorphosis' living half.
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Aeneid
Virgil
Virgil's epic prophesies Augustus' peace — the Julian heir as destiny's answer to Troy's fall.
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Augustus
Rome's first emperor — Caesar's heir whose comet-backed legitimacy Ovid and Virgil made mythic.
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Caesar's Comet
The sidus Iulium Augustus claimed as his father's soul — celestial propaganda that closes Ovid's Metamorphoses.