HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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The Romans wrote in all capital letters like the Greeks.
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The Romans wrote in all lower case letters like the Greeks.
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The Romans used a very similar vocabulary as the Greeks.
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The Romans used the exact same alphabet as the Greeks.
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Detailed explanation-1: -One of the most obvious aspects of the Greek culture that the Romans appropriated was their religion, adopting and renaming many of the Hellenic gods and keeping the many myths surrounding them. Along with this, the Romans adopted Greek architectural and artistic styling.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Greek alphabet was used and changed by the Etruscans. The Romans borrowed and altered the Etruscan alphabet. Therefore, the Roman alphabet has its roots from the Greek alphabet.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Romans often admired the Greek culture, and many educated Romans and emperors studied Greek themselves. When the Roman Empire spread to western Europe, they found that most of the cultures did not have a written language. Latin was therefore adopted as the written language for bureauracy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Architecture and Art Relying heavily upon Greek models, the Romans often constructed buildings and houses that implemented Greek styles such as colonnades and rectangular based designs. Essentially, all “furniture, utensils, houses” and “colonnades” were all the result of Greek models (Wedeck, 197).