Roman Art Vs Greek Art

Both the Greeks and Roman were civilized on the Mediterranean Sea, similar enough latitudinal for both to grow wine and olives, but with very different terrain. Ancient Rome was an inland country where they were separated from the Tibet River. Unfortunately, the Italic Tribes lived on the other side did not have the hillside to keep the Romans out. However, Ancient Greece was separated by the hilly countryside which allowed them to be city-states with high elevation called acropolis. The goal of the classical Greek sculptors was to have an ideal artistic approach, where the goal of differed Roman artists was to have realistic portraits, often for decoration. Greek art is considered superior to the imitative or decorative Roman art; indeed …show more content…
(It is thought that the Greeks considered trade degrading.) As Rome developed into an urban center, writers compared the simplicity/boorishness/moral high ground of the country's pastoral, and farming life, with the politically charged, trade-based life of a city-center dweller (Ancient History). The social classes of Greece and Rome changed over time, but the basic divisions of early Athens and Rome consisted of free and freedmen, slaves, foreigners, and women. Only some of these were counted as …show more content…
City-states joined together to form leagues that came into conflict, weakening Greece and leading to its conquest by the Macedonian kings and later, the Roman Empire. Kings also originally governed Rome. Then Rome, observing what was happening elsewhere in the world, eliminated them (Ancient History).
It established a mixed Republican form of government, combining elements of democracy, oligarchy, and monarchy, in time, rule by one returned to Rome, but in a new, initially, constitutionally sanctioned form that we know as Roman emperors. The Roman Empire split apart, and, in the West, eventually reverted to small kingdoms (Ancient History). Much of what Rome incorporated into their civilization, was adopted from the Ancient Greek civilization. Grecian women were not considered valuable to society. Both the Greeks and Romans were centered on a social hierarchy. The Greeks created three different types of architecture values. Rome incorporated the arch into their own architectural ideas and also were credited with the use of concrete as a building material. Mythology stories from both civilizations are similar, even though Greeks focused on their lives, were as Romans focus on the afterlife (Ancient