Features of Greek and Roman Culture

Features of Greek and Roman Culture

Features Roman Greek

Timeline 509 BC - 27 BC 8000 BC - 30 BC

Government At first it was a strange mixture of democracy and a republic and the reason for that is they took it from the Greek's. In each of their city they each had their own form of government. They were Monarchy, Oligarchy, and Democracy.

Location & Terrain It is in Italy. The land they choose was made of marshes and hills with ware near the rivers they use to triad. It is surrounded on three sides by water and is also covered with mountains.

Agriculture Framing, milling grain, and livestock that consisted of oxen, mules and donkeys for work and sheep for their milk, wool, meat and manure. Pigs were also reared. Goats, apart from providing food, were reared for their hair which was used to make ropes. Birds, such as fancy, ducks, and peacocks

Barley, Durum wheat, and millet or common wheat. Olive trees, Grapes have also been grown cabbage, onion, garlic, lentils, chick pea, beans and orchards of fig, almond, and pomegranate. Herbs were also grown like sage, mint, thyme, savory, oregano, as were oilseed plants such as linseed, sesame, and poppy. Goat and sheep quickly became the most common livestock; less difficult to rise and also providers of meat, wool, and milk (usually in the form of cheese). Pork and poultry (chicken and geese) were also raised. Oxen were rare and normally used as a work animal, though they were occasionally used as sacrificial animals. Donkeys, mules and their various mixes were raised as pack or draught animals. Horses were raised on the plains of Thessaly and Argolis. Poultry or small animals grazing on waste land or fed kitchen scraps.

Citizens Republic Codes of Law: 1) governed citizens, 2) governed non-citizens, both based on equality under the law Land-owning males, voter, hold office, speak in court

Religion Nature worshippers, adopted Greek gods & emperor was a god as well Worshipped kingdom gods (sea, sky, wind, hunting, war, sun, love, etc) one supreme-Zeus, female deities

Teachings & Philosophers Adopted many of Greek teachers, developed language, alphabet, 12-month calendar Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

Literature & Authors Developed little compared to Greeks, poetry, prose, letters by Cicero, Seneca, Ovid, Virgil, Horace Homer (Iliad, Odyssey), Plato (Symposium), Sophocles (Oedipus Rex), Aristophanes (Clouds), lyrical poetry, plays, major works

Expansion & Conquests Most powerful of all cultures from Scotland to the Mediterranean, Asia, Egypt, Europe, considered as ruling the world at its peak Egypt, Persian Empire, from Mesopotamia to Macedonia

Architecture They build Forums, Basilicas, Baths, Markets such as Trajan's market in Rome, Amphitheaters such as the Coliseums and the Circus Maximums, Theatres, Triumphal arches celebrating the victories of the Romans, Villas, Temples, Roads, Forts and Stockades, Towns, and Aqueducts. They built temple, theater, stadiums, and palaces.

Failures The conquered