One of Powells objectives here is to shift the focus of Virgilian studies from individual works to the whole oeuvre and to see one intention in all of them, to defend the cause of Octavian-Augustus. Powell himself is much more partial toward Sextus Pompeius-witness Sextus Pompeius, which he edited with Kathryn Welch (2002)-a fierce opponent of Octavian who styled himself Magnus Pius. of Wales) sums up his approach as proceeding from ideals expressed to realities suffered.' A striking example of this is the chapter titled 'The Theft of Pietas,' in which the author argues that Virgil, unable to credit Octavian with pietas, creates the image of a pius ancestor, Aeneas, the incarnation of this virtue, which would then be transferred by association to Octavian.

Toward the end of this book, Powell (Univ. Feel free to contact Timothy with your comments on this book by e-mailing him at Review: When Timothy is not cranking away at the keyboard, he likes to be with his family, entertain his friends by singing and playing guitar, and door-to-door to tell others about his faith. He maintains a blog on the Art of Software Development at Although he has significant publishing credits in the computer industry, he dreams of some day having his science fiction work published as well. Timothy has written a multitude of articles for various industry publications and wrote a book on flight simulation. He currently exhibits his geekish tendencies as a FileMaker developer at SolutionMakers, Inc. He started as a video game developer and worked his way into the PC and PDA software development markets on various commercial, corporate, and vertical market applications. Timothy Trimble is a professional computer geek, writer, and software developer with over 25 years of industry experience.

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