Cultural Eclecticism In Roman Culture

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The Roman culture was an inimitable intermingling of Roman and Greek philosophies, that “…came to full flower, not only in the “high” art forms—literature, art, architecture—but also in the improvements of daily life by Roman technology and engineering” (Rawls, 2016, p. 173). In addition, the Romans were exceedingly diverse (cultural Eclecticism) in their cultural values as they did not stand strong on one theory, instead believed there were many ways to arrive at a conclusion.
Another way to view their cultural values was through their pragmatism, the Romans conjured a practical and realistic way of doing things and although they replicated some of the Greek idea, such as, culture and values, —they added their own twist, with successfully

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