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Reclaiming What Was Once Lost Authority is the centerpiece of power. With it, one has the ability to control those around them under the basis of their power, and maintain a given sense of order and duty as well. This notion of the importance of authority is nowhere more evident than in Virgil's Aeneid, where through the manner in which Dido falls from authority, and eventually fights to gain it back, Virgil paints the image …

…importance that authority plays in defining the picture of the Roman world that Virgil has depicted here. Ultimately for Virgil, it is integrity, and the responsibility that comes with maintaining it with respect to duty, that serves as the underlying force of man, and of the state as well.  Bibliography Virgil. The Aeneid. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. 7th ed. Vol.1 Ed. Sarah Lawall, Maynard Mack. New York : W.W. Norton & Co. , 1999. 817-895. 2 vols.