Proud Ilium
Romans! These are your arts...
To bear dominion over the nations,
To impose peace,
To spare the conquered,
And subdue the proud!
--The Aeneid

According to tradition, the Romans were descended from Aeneas ad the other survivors of Troy. They claimed ancestry to the losers of the Trojan War and over the centuries of Roman rule, the sons of Agamamnon were made to understand that Troy had been but a battle, and that the sons of Priam had won the war.