the Romans

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By 800 B.C.E., most of the Greek city-states were no longer ruled by kings. In an oligarchy government, the power to make decisions is in the hands of two to three rich men, usually called oligarchs or kings. The word oligarchy comes from the Greek root words oligos (which means “few”) and arkhein (which means “rule”).

Instead, Greece was divided up into small city-states, like Athens, Sparta, Corinth and Olympia. Each city-state ruled itself. They had their own governments, laws and army. Only a very powerful ruler could control all Greece.

king

• Alexander the Great (356 BC–323 BC)
• Pericles (494 BC-429 BC)
• Leonidas, King of Sparta (540 BC-480 BC)
• Solon (630 BC-560 BC)
• Cleisthenes (570 BC-508 BC)
• Demosthenes (384 BC-322 BC)
• Draco (650 BC-600 BC)
• Latinized Pisistratus (608 BC-527 BC)

In the end the Kingdom of Greece won and Greece remained capitalist. The Kingdom of Greece would join NATO along with Turkey in 1952, placing them fully in the Western Bloc. In 1967 Greece fell victim to a military coup and became a military dictatorship from 1967-1974.

The Greek peninsula fell to the Roman Republic during the Battle of Corinth (146 BC), when Macedonia became a Roman province. During the Roman civil wars, Greece was physically and economically devastated until Augustus organised the peninsula as the province of Achaea, in 27 BC.

The Roman–Greek wars were a series of conflicts between the Roman Republic and various Ancient Greek states during the late Hellenistic period. the Pyrrhic War (280–275 BC), after which Rome asserted its hegemony over Magna Grecia. …

Greek Culture’s Influence on the Development of Roman Architecture and Engineering. Architecture is one aspect of Greek culture that the Romans adopted but also expanded upon. They used the ancient Greek architectural styles like Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.

Ancient history includes the recorded Greek history beginning in about 776 BCE (First Olympiad). This coincides roughly with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BCE and the beginning of the history of Rome.

The Romans thought that the Greeks were like children and were constantly quarreling – always keeping themselves disunified and being devious liars. They felt that the Greeks lacked order and were in need of the firm hand of a Pater Familias, to quote Rubicon (great book by the way).

Spartan Society Sparta, also known as Lacedaemon, was an ancient Greek city-state located primarily in the present-day region of southern Greece called Laconia. Spartan men devoted their lives to military service, and lived communally well into adulthood.

The Romans had their own religion and their own pantheon, but they saw similarities between the Greek gods and their own, and so decided to equate certain gods between the Roman and Greek pantheons.

So a wealthy Roman would have a copy of a famous temple statue commissioned for his garden–or, increasingly likely, would simply buy a premade statue. Marble is a much cheaper material than bronze, so these would generally be marble.

Greek art was held in high regard by the ever-expanding Romans who set about conquering the Mediterranean and coming home with art and treasure from across the land. Roman artists copied many marble and bronze statues in order to meet popular demand, usually working in marble.