The Romans adopted and
adapted the western Greek alphabet.
They adopted some of
the Greek gods (Apollo, Asclepius, Castor and Pollux and Cybele,
whom they called Magna Mater) and linked their gods to the Greek
ones.
Their scientific ideas
came from the Greeks.
They adopted Greek
medicine.
They adopted Greek
sports.
Their literature was
based on the Greek tragedies and comedies.
Their elite men studied
the two main Greek school of philosophy of the time: stoicism and
Epicureanism.
From the late 1st
century BC they adopted Greek sculpture
The adopted the Greek
orders (styles) to make columns (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) and
modelled their temples on the Greek ones. However, for the rest,
Roman architecture went way beyond the techniques of the Greeks.
The Romans effected what historians have called the Roman
architectural revolution.
