"Anachronisms could be justified as a means of bringing the past to life and making the representation convincing to the audience. (This has always been the norm in religious paintings, providing a means whereby the Biblical story is made to live anew). Anachronism was also sanctioned by the practice of Roman poets like Virgil, who included in the Aeneid customs and objects which clearly did not belong to the heroic world of primitive Italy that he was describing."