The Romans wanted to establish their own identity so they had a work written called based upon and an attempt to equal the place in the Roman culture of the Iliad and the Odyssey from the Greeks. The Romans wanted to establish their own identity so they had a work written called based upon and an attempt to equal the place in the Roman culture of the Iliad and the Odyssey from the Greeks. Agamemnon Pax Romana Aeneid Prima Porta