“did the romans conquer the greeks, or did the greeks conquer the romans?” . My final opinion is that the greeks conquered the romans . In my assumption , for the greeks, it must have been much like living before they were physically conquered, they still had all theirs ways of living since the romans copied it. it is much more important to have conquered a civilization with your religion, art, technology, science, philosophy ,literature language, government, and the list goes on: then to have just conquered a civilization because you have a stronger military. The greek beliefs and lifestyles must have been that powerful for the romans to base their whole lives around it and have it impact the reason they were so great.
Though the Etruscans made Roma a metropolis, the Romans themselves adopted Greek artistic customs instead. They broke from traditional conventions however, and made their statues often more realistic and the coloration (which is now often lost) much gaudier. Greek paintings were too adopted in form, but such items did not survive antiquity. Secondly, the Romans adopted Greek mythology and philosophy. Originally, the chief deities of Vesta, Jupiter, Mars and Venus did not have mythology in Rome (with many being quite animistic).
Athens decided to worry more about culture. The Spartans Goverment had A War Like Attitude and best met the needs of ancient Greece. The Athen democratic government, gave the citizens in Greece more freedom. Only Some of the total population of Athens actually had voting rights and all of these citizens were upper class men who were over thirty years old. Women were given
This was clearly evident by the lack of details around the joints in the knees and arms. Another major characteristic of early Greek sculpture was the lack of natural stance of movement in the figure. A perfect example of a piece of art from the Archaic period is the Kouros, ca. 600 BC. The Kouros is one of the earliest life-size statuary in the history of Greek Art.
It was the largest Doric Greek temple but also used the Ionic temple styles (Ancient History). The creators of the Parthenon wanted the transition from outside to inside to be clear and smooth. A visitor would be able to have a spectacular view into the shrine to the goddess. The architects were very dedicated to the geometric design of this temple. They knew that the parallel columns would make the temple appear as if it were becoming narrower toward the back; to prevent this, they carved the columns to become
Since the Greek language is so flexible, nearly all the upper-class Romans of the late republic and early empire used Greek for philosophical discussion and even for love-making. Greek language was the last words Julius Caesar used at the actual moment of his murder, and the emperor Marcus Aurelius kept his private spiritual diary in Greek. Back then, Greek language was a very international language to the European countries. English: Dark Age Of all the great modern European languages, English has by far the largest and most important early literature; and of course there was a huge amount of influence by Greek and Roman, beginning from the language itself. An example of English literature is an epic called Beowulf.
Although conversely, the very dissimilar landscape between the two swayed their political growth. The mountainous terrain and numerous islands that make up Greece made it difficult for city-states to interact with each other, which resulted in each city-state growing individually. The ruling class of every city-state was against forming any kind of monarchy and defended their independence. Rome was very flat in comparison to the Greek terrain with mountains on the east side and what is now the Tyrrhenian Sea off to the west, which caused Rome to grow to become one huge city-state. Rome dealt with immigrants and intruders from the north and south.
Large temples are constructed so they can be accessed from the front, sides, and rear. (See Figure 1) The city of Olympia is predominantly a “Classical” city. The century which followed the loss of Greek independence was a downward turn in the history of Olympia. The independence of the city state was vital to Olympia, and its loss resulted in the decline of competition and disinterest in the Olympic Games. Once the Roman conquest of Olympia had taken place, respect for their athletics had lessened also had the worship for the chief god Zeus.
Rome represented a sharp break from the Hellenistic and Greek civilization after Rome had successfully taken over all the small kingdoms of the Hellenistic world and then incorporating these small kingdoms into the Roman Empire. We can still see that Greek influences never really went away and it always remained alive in Rome culture to a much lesser degree in areas such as politics economy and military even after the end of the Hellenist period when Octavian conquered and defeated Egypt under the rule of Cleopatra in 30BC The Roman Legion and the Greek Phalanx were two of the most amazing revolutionary tactics that was developed in ancient time. The Greek Phalanx and the Roman legion were both responsible for innovating new forms and ways of defeating an enemy. There use of tactics is what revolutionized the way war would be fought from then on. We will soon see that both of these ancient tactics have various things in common as well as many differences.
Grassroots Efforts to Preserve Hellenism by Steve Frangos The Greeks in the United States have reached a new era of self-understanding. Without consent from Washington, the Phanar, or anyone at the University, Greek Americans around the nation are making every attempt to systematically preserve their history and heritage in North America. What can only be called a New Preservation Movement has overtaken Greek America. As never before, Greek Americans are establishing museums, historical societies, archives, and libraries. Already, various organizations have amassed a wide array of historical photographs, documents, and artifacts.