Since the Greek settlers were established in the Italian peninsula and were already successful and wealthy with their ideas, trades, farming, and fishing, the Romans adopted much of their culture. The Romans were known for sometimes adapting some of the culture of the areas they would conquer. However, they were not appeased by the Greek republic ideas, unlike the Greeks, the Romans rarely speculated on the ideal state or on political forms, instead they created institutions, magistracies, and legal concepts to deal with practical problems and govern their ever expanding state (p. 130). Never the less, some of their culture as far as art and literature goes were over the top and very influential towards the Romans. The Greeks had already settled in parts of the Italian peninsula and became wealthy, known as Magna Graecia – Greater Greece (p. 124).
