Greek & Roman Civ.
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Classical Greek culture and society have left the world an enormous legacy, from history, literature, religion, politics and the state to architecture, ideology, trade and war. As J. M. Roberts (88) states, “The role of the Greeks was pre-eminent in making this world and with them its story must begin…The Greek search for excellence defined for later peoples what excellence was and their achievement remains difficult to exaggerate.” However, were it not for the Arab and Roman civilizations around them, we might not know as much about the contributions to society of Greek culture. Yet, when Rome obliterated Corinth and Greece became a conquered territory, Romans were not unimpressed with many aspects of their society and culture which they readily adopted. For example, the Romans adopted the Greek system of education with a focus on the disciplines that are today encompassed in the Liberal Arts curriculum. Rhetoric, rules of grammar and dialectic were borrowed from the Greeks and implemented into Roman education. Greek rules of law were adopted to form the Roman legal system and the Roman Law which emerged from it stands as a model for modern legal processes. The Roman arts, including plays, sculpture, dance, and architecture mirrored their Greek counterparts. It is the passing down of these aspects of Greek culture that have made many aspects of Greek culture find expression in our modern societies, from the philo
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We owe to the Greeks the advent of the city-state and large public events during which festivals and rites were carried out, like the Greek Olympiad-the ancient forerunner of our modern day Olympics. These traditions were also influential on Rome, whose own culture was basically a mixture of Greek and Roman invention. In Rome, religious cults celebrated rites and mythology and were devoted to the eclectic and cosmopolitan Roman outlook regarding religion. Like the Greeks, the Romans initially accepted polytheism and many of the Gods in the Greek Pantheon were adopted by the Romans though their names were changed. For example, the god of the seas was Poseidon in Classical Greece and Neptune in Classical Rome, while the Greek god of wine, Dionysus was Bacchus in Rome. In Greece, the god of wine was celebrated through public festivals known as Greek Dionysia while Bacchus was celebrated in similar festivals in Rome known as Bacchanalia. In Rome, “for the most part, the peasants everywhere pursued the timeless superstitions of their local nature cults, townspeople took up new crazes from time to time, and the educated professed some acceptance of the classical pantheon of Greek gods and led the people in the
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