what are some differences between ancient Greece and Rome?

Question

i meant cultural differences

Answer 1

ancient greece was before rome and spanned the mediterranean region. they spoke greek, worshipped the olympian gods, held the first olympics, with some of the world's first philosophers and mathematicians. athens basically advocated the first instances of democracy and greece was made up of city states as opposed to a kingdom. rome was after the greeks and copied a lot of their culture. they took their religion and changed the names of the gods, they were more warlike and spanned quite a lot of europe and they had several types of ruling governments (republic, imperial and some democracy; all at different times) they also spoke latin and while an incredibly powerful empire, stole much of greek culture and considered the greeks to be intellectual.

Answer 2

Greece was always divided into city states and only a few times i.e. under Alexander in which it was unified and only for a fleeting moment in history. Rome was a unified republic for centuries. Also as Greece declined Rome absorbed all of the Greeks' culture and best minds.

Answer 3

Rome Hotelbye today is certainly one of the main tourist locations of the world, due to the incalculable immensity of their archaeological and artwork gifts, along with for the allure of their distinctive traditions, the beauty of their breathtaking opinions, and the majesty of their wonderful parks. One of many points should see durante Rome is Campo de'Fiori. Campo de'Fiori is a rectangular square south of Piazza Navona used as a market place throughout the day, and celebration central for college pupils and tourists at night. The title indicates “field of flowers” and was first given during the Middle Ages when the region was really a meadow. Another place worth visit is The Roman Forum. Positioned in the tiny valley involving the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, The Roman Forum was for centuries the teeming center of old Rome and nowadays is just a expansive destroy of architectural fragments

Answer 4

Greek culture grew and flourished in a collection of autonomous city-states – Athens, Sparta, et al. It emphasized philosophy and a life of virtue, which was understood as a balance between all extremes. Roman culture was more centralized and imperialistic; Rome was the capital of a large and ever-expanding empire. Both cultures celebrated war and valor, but the Greeks were more individualistic, emphasizing the specific accomplishments of great men like Aristotle and Achilles, while the Romans valued hierarchical order and rigid obedience. The ideal Greek is Odysseus, the philosopher warrior; the ideal Roman is Julius Caesar, one of history's greatest tyrants.

Rome was highly influenced by Greece, however, especially in the areas of art and philosophy. All the Greek gods were given Roman names; Ares became Mars, Aphrodite became Venus, etc.

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Answer 5

The Greeks carried and defended western civilization for many years. They introduced much of the modern concepts of philosophy, government, and mathematics. The Romans came from a small nearly unknown city to ultimately take over the areas once owned or colonized by Greeks. The Romans took much of Greek civilization and improved on it, particularly architecture, engineering, and the military (there were no great Roman mathematicians: you ever try doing math with Roman numerals?).

Answer 6

Greece was comprised of city states, so it wasn't very centeralized. Thus, different places focused on different things. Sparta was known for its warriors while Athens was more philosophical. Rome, however, was centralized. Like Sparta, they focused on their military, but also were very philosophical. They focused on government. Greece was a foundation for the Roman Empire.

Answer 7

The History of Greece traditionally encompasses the study of the Greek people, the areas they ruled, and the territory now composing the modern state of Greece.

The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied significantly through the ages, and as a consequence the history of Greece is similarly elastic in what it includes. Each era has its own related sphere of interest.

The first Greeks arrived in Europe some time before 1500 BC, and at its peak, Greek Civilization ruled everything from Greece to Egypt to the Hindu Kush mountains. Since then, large Greek minorities have remained in former Greek territories (e.g., Turkey, Italy, and Libya, Levant, etc.), and Greek Emigrants have assimilated into differing societies across the globe (e.g. North America, Australia, Northern Europe, South Africa etc.). However, today most Greeks live in the modern states of Greece (independent since 1821) and Cyprus (independent since 1960).

HISTORY OF ROME:
History of Rome (Ger. Römische Geschichte) is a multi-volume history of ancient Rome written by Theodor Mommsen. It was originally intended to be in five volumes spanning the history of Rome from its inception to the emperor Diocletian. The first three volumes, covering the inception of Rome to the end of the Republic, were published between 1854-56. A planned fourth volume was scrapped before completion, but another volume about the history of the Roman Empire's provinces was published in 1885. Although this final volume was the fourth, it is commonly referred to as the fifth. The 'fourth' volume is not extant.

English translations by Dr. William Purdie Dickson of the University of Glasgow were published in 1861 and 1894.

A noted new English version was compiled by Professor John H. Collins and Dero A. Saunders and published in 1958. Aside from further annotations and a greatly improved translation, the book sought to put Mommsen's vast contributions to the study of Roman History in clearer context.

Professor Collins' introduction to The History of Rome begins as follows:

"One of the highpoints of Mark Twain's European tour of 1892 was a large formal banquet at the University of Berlin given in honor of two of the nineteenth century's scientific giants, Rudolph Virchow, one of the founders of modern biology, and Hermann von Helmholtz, perhaps Europe's greatest scientific mind since Isaac Newton. Mark Twain was an honored guest, seated at the head table with some twenty 'particularly eminent professors'; and it was from this vantage point that he witnessed the following incident:

"'When apparently the last eminent guest had long ago taken his place, again those three bugle-blasts rang out, and once more the swords leaped from their scabbards. Who might this late comer be? Nobody was interested to inquire. Still, indolent eyes were turned toward the distant entrance, and we saw the silken gleam and the lifted sword of a guard of honor plowing through the remote crowds. Then we saw that end of the house rising to its feet; saw it rise abreast the advancing guard all along like a wave. This supreme honor had been offered to no one before. There was an excited whisper at our table—'MOMMSEN!'—and the whole house rose. Rose and shouted and stamped and clapped and banged the beer mugs. Just simply a storm! Then the little man with his long hair and Emersonian face edged his way past us and took his seat. I could have touched him with my hand—Mommsen!—think of it!...I would have walked a great many miles to get a sight of him, and here he was, without trouble or tramp or cost of any kind. Here he was clothed in a titanic deceptive modesty which made him look like other men. Here he was, carrying the Roman world and all the Caesars in his hospitable skull, and doing it as easily as that other luminous vault, the skull of the universe, carries the Milky Way and the constellations.'

"It is doubtful whether any other European intellectual figure of that day could have been thus honored in the presence of such men as Virchow and Helmholtz, and certainly none could have deserved the honor more than Mommsen."

Answer 8

besides that they have different names and locations,Roman's literature was the second best while the Greece Literature is the best because the romans just copied the ideas of greeks...the romans are less thinker but more doer than the greeks...

Answer 9

the cactus has wrong.
the greek was divided to states but at this time rome whas only a city.
The roman empire was foundet after the fall of the Greek macedonian empire.
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Answer 10

the greeks laid the foundation for the romans, and most of western society. the romans improved it, worked eith law more, and changed the neams of the gods and goddesses.