Topics in Cultural Studies
Project 1
By
Crystal Grant

The Greek and the Romans inspired each other but they also have their share of differences. From the Greek architecture who inspired Roman architecture, created the known genre that is called classical architecture.

ANCIENT GREEK | ANCIENT ROMANS | Typically built with mud, wood, plaster and stone | Construct their temples with marble or limestone | Began their histories as city-states. | Began their histories as city-states. | Their religious practices concerned their gods and heroes | Their religion was formed into rituals and ceremonies and the cults of the Roman emperors | Ancient Greece was the most advanced economy in the world | The city of Rome was the largest megalopolis of that time | Seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western culture. | Its transportation technology was very efficient | The domination of politics and concomitant aggregation of wealth by small groups of families was apt to cause social unrest in many | Is the seat of the Italian Government | | |

So one difference is that Greek culture was exceedingly older than Roman culture. Never, ever consider ancient Greece and Rome as being the same, for they were not and those are only some of the differences--you know I can't type all day! They were exceedingly different cultures adopting from one another, but no civilization is original. The Greeks, in fact, adopted from the Egyptians and one can see in their early art the similarity quite clearly. No civilization in all of history is original, and Greek and Roman culture is no exception.

References

Aquae Urbis Romae: the Waters of the City of Rome, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011). Winner of the 2011 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Award for Landscape History from the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

Cummings, L. L.;