Plus: the thesis that Rome was not "founded" and that the open aggregative citizenship is driving both its construction and expansion. Cons: linguistic acrobatics to establish the Aeneid as a "poetics of origo" that have an air of over-interpretation. The claimed anthropological approach is quite challenging but bridges with the historic approach would have been required. If Rome as a Greek city needs any discourse of origins, Rome as the process has not origo the program that the author via Auguste ready to Virgil.
