Well it was basically a piece of propaganda for the Roman government. A really beautiful piece of propaganda, but propaganda nonetheless. The Trojan heritage o

Well it was basically a piece of propaganda for the Roman government. A really beautiful piece of propaganda, but propaganda nonetheless. The Trojan heritage of Rome isn't true in fact, but it certainly has some truth metaphorically. Rome was always an heir to Hellenic culture and nowhere is this more evident than in Roman art. Homer was the pinnacle of artistic achievement at that point in history, so it made sense for Virgil to model his poem on the Greek epics.