Question

List two item the romans borrowed from the greek.

Answer 1

The Romans adopted and adapted the western Greek alphabet. They adopted some of the Greek gods (Apollo, Asclepius, Castor and Pollux and Cybele, whom they called Magna Mater) and linked their gods to the Greek ones. Their scientific ideas came from the Greeks. They adopted Greek medicine. They adopted Greek sports. Their literature was based on the Greek tragedies and comedies. Their elite men studied the two main Greek school of philosophy of the time: stoicism and Epicureanism. From the late 1st century BC they adopted Greek sculpture The adopted the Greek orders (styles) to make columns (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) and modelled their temples on the Greek ones. However, for the rest, Roman architecture went way beyond the techniques of the Greeks. The Romans effected what historians have called the Roman architectural revolution.