How does Virgil succeed in writing a poem in praise of Augustus when the story is not about Augustus at all.

... How does Virgil succeed in writing a poem in praise of Augustus when the story is not about Augustus at all. At the time when Virgil was writing the Aeneid, Rome was going through a time of great political and social change, where Augustus Caesar had seized power through the destruction of the Roman Republic, and had himself installed as dictator and sole ruler of Rome. Virgil evidently through his writing is in praise of Augustus, and this characteristic is notable throughout the poem. Aeneas and Augustus when it came to politics thought along broadly the same lines. No one could have loved the ancient traditions of Rome more than Virgil did, and the qualities by which Rome in the past had grown great with. Virgil was also quite a close friend of Augustus. The Aeneid is a reflection of the governmental policies of Augustus in moral, social and religious ideas,

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