"The Julii claimed their bloodlines went back to the earliest days of the Republic; in fact, Caesar would boast they were descended from Aeneas and his mother, the goddess Venus. Probably little of this rubbed off on Octavius".

One wonders if 'little of this rubbed off on Octavius', then why go to all the bother as Augustus in having Vergil compose the Aeneid, only a complete copy of the Greek history of Homer form the Illiad and Odyssey.

Also why have Augustus painted as such a hero, benevolent father of the people of Rome going all the way back to Romulus, and put so much emphisis of Roman lineage tracing it back to Venus herself, in the book vi where Aeneas goes to the underworld.

The Greek histography challanged the Roman's and Augustus had no intention of showing anyone his lineage was nothing other than devine. After all his father was deified, so this very much 'rubbed off on him'.