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The literary program "Friends" under the rubric Dichtung und Wahrheit ("Poetry and Truth") offers a conversation about one of the most important works of world literature, the founding poem of the Roman Empire, which played no less a role in the creation of this state than the consuls and emperors. The Roman emperor, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus, ordered the best poet of Rome, Publius Virgil Maro, to write a historical poem, a national epic, and the great Roman fulfilled this task perfectly. The whole of Rome knew that Virgil was creating a masterpiece, which should be the equal and curtain of the "Iliad". How Virgil accomplished the task, why he called for his poem to be burned, what fragment he read to Octavianus and his sister, Octavia, why the first emperor of Rome, a very strict and determined man, shed tears and why his sister's heart went away, is what the program is about.