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A 4 page paper which examines and explains the phrase “Captive Greece made Rome captive.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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over Greece and all of its dealings. They held Greece captive, but yet they did not have a powerful sense of their own culture and quickly adopted Greek elements. They
took Greek art, philosophy, religion, social structures, architecture, and many other elements and incorporated them into their ruling society. As such they were thus held captive by the Greeks because
they were at the mercy of all that made the Greeks unique, having adopted it as their own. The following paper discusses how Rome became captive to Greece through such
a reality. Greece and Rome One author tells us that Romans conquered Greece in the middle of the 2nd century BCE" and then they began borrowing "philosophy, literature, science,
arts from Greece," thus "Captive Greece made Rome captive" (Roman Art Notes, 2005). Even the visual language of the Greeks was quickly taken up by the Romans, and then gradually
passed down to the rest of the civilized world (Roman Art Notes, 2005). This phrase, "captive Greece made Rome captive," is probably taken from Horaces statement that "Captive Greece
conquered her savage victor" (Republican Rome, 2005). This is because when Rome conquered Greece, Greece began to have a powerful influence over Rome: "Greek slaves taken in wars in the
east became the educators of the noble sons of Rome. Greek was the first literary language of the Romans, who wrote their first histories in Greek. Education became linked to
Greek literature (Homer) and philosophy. Greek rhetoric was much loved by the practical Romans as preparation for careers in politics and law, and Athens became a university town where Romans
like Cicero came to study" (Republican Rome, 2005). One of the most important influences that Greeks had upon the Romans was that of religion. The Romans did not
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