The Romans began their conquest over the Greece in 282 B.C.E. after they defeated the Samnites. Defeating the Samnites allowed the Romans come in contact with a new rival the Greek city states of southern Italy. Although the Romans saw the Greeks as, people who were superior to them in ways such as, culture, imagination, and in commerce (buying and selling goods). They also admired the Greeks for their skills in organizing, and governing, and their experience in the world outside of Italy. The Romans still felt that they should Govern and not the Greeks. The Romans felt this way because they saw how the Greek states rise with greatness and later would fall, the Romans saw a cycle and thought the way the Greeks were Govern

The entire Greek philosophy was taken by the Romans. “Service to the state and the community was the highest duty the only way to ensure against disappointment of early life was to renounce the pursuit of wealth and power and live a life of modest seclusion”(PA pg. 119). Although this was their philosophy Greeks did not follow it because they were a people who cared about money and power. They could not follow this philosophy being so strict with justice, and the law, and having power over others. The Romans prove this in the way they took over the Greek culture.

They also had mutual religions, they looked at the gods the same way the Greeks did. God where the protectors of the community and where also looked upon a soul sources of and individuals survival. Romans did have priest and priestesses but unlike Greek culture they had little power. I believe that the Romans did this to avoid upraises of people going against the Roman culture. This was a religion of the state rather than and individual religion. Eventually over time some of the Hellenistic religions where taken by Rome. Also the thoughts of the after life resembled the Greeks. Greeks felt that there was an afterlife but it could not be reached through the gods.

Even thought the Romans saw the Greeks as inferior to them in matters of government and war they still admired the Greeks for their cultural achievements and the arts. The R

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