How Did Greek Culture Influence Roman Culture

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Greek Culture was made in Roman sense of consciousness this made it directly influence Roman art, literature and costume’s and mainly literacy itself. Roman’s broke down to what they imagined art to be they questioned commands such as art collecting. A new art was developed during the rich age of empire which Augustus ensured that new symbols and meaning should be developed for all public use, this was represented as a new message to receive art. Art was created to become more than just a collectable item for the rich and was now used to deliberately spread widely. Now that we look back at art literature old temples were restored and new temples were raised. All public buildings were created with such beauty and covered in marbles and in Rome’s saw artistic decorations as a worthy of political primacy. All the buildings were made up with sculpture and art communicated the message of godly rightfulness to the state and emperor. In the …show more content…

Greeks had many masterpieces of ancient paintings that did not survive through generations but there are some that we learn from old copied paintings found in Pompeii, Rome and Herculaneum. A lot of the paintings that still exist have fresh and light viewed paint that still remains. Romans showed our generation that Greece had beauty and significant in their drawings. Romans are who kept the great paintings and sculptures living which developed their ability to put concrete into use for arches, vaults, or domes this was a great support on building architecture structures of skyscraper where this was put into effect. In Roman days they built on their open high end theaters, they got this idea from the Greeks. Which in today's society we generated our architecture foundation such as theater's, skyscrapers and other buildings that showed art in a different formation which we copied from Roman's and they had got the idea from

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