Quote Originally Posted by antisocialmunky View Post
The Aeneid.
This is more about mythology than ancient history, antisocialmunky. I don't believe romans took it as facts, but they celebrated their own version(/copy) of Iliad and Odyssey, created this time by a roman about Rome. This is another way to see how romans used greek culture to build their own. It was a matter of entertainement and its obvious purpose is to glorified the roman society by giving it heroic and divine roots ; it's a tale.
At the same times, The Ovid's Metamorphoses had the same purpose.