In their time, the Romans did not know how their city came to be, so they had special beliefs about the creation of Rome. Such beliefs were: “The myth about Romulus and Remus explains the creation of Rome.” and “Whens had The first aspect that the Ancient Romans held special beliefs about was the creation of the world. The Romans had no scientific way of explaining how the world was created, so they took it upon themselves to create stories that would explain it. Some of the special beliefs of the creation of the world that the Ancient Romans had were: “in the beginning there was absolutely nothing”, “a god then rolled the lifeless matter into a ball which became Earth”, “this spirit divided the Earth into five ‘zones’” and “It was in these zones that everything was created — lakes, seas, land, animals, etc.” (“Roman Creation Myth”) As evident from the quotes, the Romans’ myths beheld their special beliefs of the creation of the world. The quotes are the special beliefs that the Ancient Romans had about the creation of the world and these are facts that they belien Romulus and Remus grew up, they visited the place where they were found by the wolf” (“Creation Myths of the Ancient Romans”).
Athenian and Roman Democracy Athens and Rome had two very different forms of government. These two forms of governing were efficient in their own ways. But success only came to the Roman Republic because of how they managed to keep control of Rome. Basically, the Romans did not let everyone participate in the government. Instead, the people chose officials to represent them.
Instead of comparing the Greek and Roman deities, many references use the term “equivalent” as if the Greek and Roman deities were identical. There are numerous popular translations of ancient Greek literature in which the Greek gods and goddesses are never called by their Greek names. Instead, the translators substitute the Roman names for the Greek names and no one seems to notice or care. The result has been that many people are convinced that the ancient Romans did not have an original religion at all, but that the essence of their spiritual life was nothing more than a revival of the ancient Greek religion with the addition of a few Roman flourishes and new Latin names for the gods and goddesses. In reality, the two are very different from one another, and capture almost opposing life values that are central to the people of the time.
Each had a very strong sense of individualism, and even when they had bonded for a short period of time, such as during the Persian invasion, they had quickly divided once again. This was because each city-state had their own set of laws and how to be ruled, and they did not find a way to unify with each other. The Ancient Greeks did have other forms of unifications, such as the same religion, language and basic culture, but none of these factors
Although it can be argued that Alcibiades initiated the invasion, Athens’s would not have led a costly campaign to Sicily just because of one man. Furthermore, there was no need to spread Democracy to Sicily as Syracuse itself was using this ideology. Sparta led a campaign to Thrace in order to exploit the local mines and timber there, for their own benefit and as a way of weakening Athens. The Old Oligarch tells us that Athens’s trade vastly improved as their Empire increased; therefore acting as a cause of conflict as Athens would want to improve their economy which could only be done by engaging in conflict with other city states. The Old Oligarch is reasonably reliable as it is a piece of archaeological evidence which was supposedly written by Xenophon.
This similarity shows that, though neither civilization was dependent on it, land trade played an important role in the cultures of the two civilizations. These trade roads also played a large part in the cultural diffusion of Rome and Latin America. In Classical Latin America and the early years of Classic Rome, Mountainous terrain isolated cities, towns, and villages, but through the complex trade routes, these two civilizations could interact with their surrounding civilizations. Another similarity between the two cultures was that the Aztecs, a classical civilization of Latin America, and the Romans both conquered new territory for either political or economic reasons. With Rome conquering Western Europe and the Aztecs conquering the majority of Central America, the two civilizations gathered a large amount of wealth from the conquered states.
Undoubtedly, Rome came to greatness by rigid laws that tied the kingdom together as well as a Republic. The empire started as a small place around the Mediterranean Sea in about 500 BCE, and by the time it had deteriorated in 467 CE, it had at one point stretched from present day Britain to present day Armenia. To unify that entire empire from, they had consistent, strict laws everyone abided by. In contrast, India had a more loose government and was less politically unified which at times weakened it. The caste system which was a part of their religion mostly gave order to the land.
Italy also has fertile plains where the Romans settled. However, Rome was much easier to unify than Greece. Greece, is a part of the Balkan peninsula, which extends into the Mediterranean Sea. Mountains divide the peninsula into isolated valleys. Because of this, the ancient Greeks built small city-states cut by mountains and water instead of building a large empire such as ancient Egypt and Rome.
Romans vs. Greeks, the everlasting and ongoing fight for dominancy, on the battlefield of all the human areas of interest. If one could take the history as factual and undisputable, there would not be a discussion about this, but since the history is quite interpretative, so different people have different answers, based on their perceptions. That is why I think, it is not possible to compare these two great civilizations in all the spheres generally, but to describe their similarities and differences using a very specific examples. Such examples, that could be used to help us understand the issue a bit more, could be the two great buildings, the temples built in Europe in different periods, both serving as places of gods worship, both built to express the power and beauty of those gods through architecture and design. One of these two examples is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena, Parthenon, which was built in Greece in the 5th century BC on the Athenian Acropolis and the second one Pantheon, the building in Rome, built in 2nd century AD, to all the gods of Ancient Rome.
On the other hand, Rome did not have the safety of rolling hills and was more of a united society, yet open to invasion. As a result of being open to invasion, there was interaction with Rome and their attempted invaders including Greece. Greece and Rome both had patriarchal societies. This means that men were supreme and in charge rather than women. Although this is the basics, Roman women had much more rights than those of Greece, who were not even considered citizens.