Compare And Contrast Greek And Roman Civilizations

Through out human history, we look back to the peaks of our civilization, and learn and adapt from it to build our future, and the two greatest civilizations in our human history; which were the Greeks and the Romans civilizations, that brought upon the worlds greatest minds and iconic figures who impacted our history till this day. Different eras bringing us different things but all similar to their main sequence of their civilizations. As Archeologist look back to study those times, they look at the different things these civilizations held such as the arts and how art historians have used it to understand the history and values of these cultures that produced it, and how these two Great Civilizations were so similar but so different at

Their great minds such as Aristotle, Socrates, or Plato brought reason to our minds and theoretically think of the world from another perspective. As we advance technologically and findings of this ancient civilization we uncover and understand more and more of its history and values upon our modern civilization. Like Thomas Henry Husley once said, “The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favor of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike

Heracles is the son of Zeus who is the God of all the Gods, and this statue similar to most statues of mythological characters is a representation in my opinion to the masculinity and glorious history they had and the admiration upon these characters. The statue which stands roughly 7 feet of a strong man with the skin of a lion in one hand, and a wooden club in another. Greek sculptures were traditionally extremely idealized. Usually from development of information in the studies of the Greek civilizations, we can tell that the image of the gods such as Zeus or Poseidon were of abnormal physique, as in the goddesses were given more as a calm beauty look. Sculptors showed their skill by depicting the ideal human form, while the subjects had their image presented as a perfect version of themselves.The person depicted very well have had a body nothing like their sculpture, so they should be taken. Romans were generally less fond of idealized sculptures, going for a more natural approach, but it still occurred through sculptures. This rather hilariously absurd portrait bust of the emperor Commodus as Heracles showcases this as well; similar to the Heracles sculpture with his sculpture having bulging muscles, his actual body probably did not. While I can not speak to if Greeks and Romans had the physique in reality, I can say that their sculptures could certainly