Describe ONE influence from Greek & Roman Culture that is still used!!!?

Question

Describe ONE influence from Greek & Roman Culture that is still used!!!

Answer 1

the romans had the first paid profesional army, and the greeks had the first democracy both still in use today in many parts of the world

almost forgot, if you have to have only one that both cultures shared it would have to be the idea of plumbimg

Answer 2

One influence from Greek culture is Roman structure

Answer 3

Greeks: Homosexuality

Romans: Bisexuality

Answer 4

Again so so many..
The sports Stadium, the Olympics. As one of the earliest civil structures both the Greek & Romans, pretty much set the path of all modern history. Be it law, art, counting systems calanders.the
list runs on and on and on......

Answer 5

Roman concepts of law are still used in many Western countries.

Answer 6

Greek - Hamartia: device in literature where the hero of the tale is undone by a tragic flaw in his character. Still happens in Hollywood movies.

Romans - Just one? Hmmm, straight roads, viaducts, legal systems. Nope can't do it, too many

Answer 7

Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Answer 8

WOW...there are so many.....government, language, alphabet, philosophy, the list goes on and on....but how about the fact that many of the european languages of today derive directly from latin.

Answer 9

how about the numbering system? 1's, 10's, 100's, 1000's, etc.

Answer 10

There are many, but both gave us art,( poetry, architecture, literature, theater, sculpting, etc.