Athenian citizens could all vote, but Athenian women were not citizens, whereas in Rome they were. Â Ancient Greece thrived in the 5th century B.C., while Rome did not thrive for hundreds of years later. • They differ from each other in terms of their contribution to art. • Both Greeks and Romans were great architects, but Greeks were better mathematicians. The Roman and Greek both literature are very rich and vast. • It is believed that Greek culture was older than the Roman culture. Rome as a Kingdom. As Rome developed into an urban center, writers compared the simplicity/boorishness/moral high ground of the country's pastoral/farming life, with the politically charged, trade-based life of a city-center dweller. Roman comedy were either Greek adaptations or entirely Roman in a Roman setting. 6 The Roman Republic as a Constitutional Order from the Principate to the Renaissance; 7 Neo-Roman Interlude Romans believed in the mythological figures. Greek art is considered superior to the "merely" imitative or decorative Roman art; indeed much art we think of as Greek is actually a Roman copy of a Greek original. Greece in the Roman eradescribes the Roman conquest of Greeceand the period of Greek historywhen Ancient Greece was dominated by the Roman Republicand the Roman Empire(27 BC-AD 1453), commonly referred to as the Byzantine Empireafter about AD 395. In the Greek family, or oikos, household, the situation was more what we consider the nuclear family normal. The Greeks used marble; the Romans used concrete. Only some of these groups were counted as citizens. After the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods, Neolithic Greece came into existence in 7000 BC. Timelines. • Romans believed in the same mythological figures as the Greeks. As Greek gods predated Roman gods, Roman mythology would take the Greek deity and assign a Roman object that would fit the description of the Greek god. Romans acknowledge Mars as God of fertility too. Gill, N.S. Big estates took over, producing wine and olive oil, which were also the chief exports of the Romans — not too surprisingly, given their shared geographical conditions and the popularity of these two necessities. Greeks ideally lived on small self-sufficient wheat-producing farms, but bad agricultural practices made many households incapable of feeding themselves. The aristocratic woman was secluded in the women's quarter and had to be accompanied in public places. • One of the main differences between Romans and Greeks is that while Romans lived in the Difference between Romans and Greeks is not hard to understand. "All the gods" (7 planetary gods). When it comes to art, Romans sought perfect likeness in their art work to real people. Quick Comparison: Ancient Greeks vs. Romans were opposed to portraying animal characters in their stories and legends. During the Hellenistic period, there was demand for copies of earlier art, and so it too can be described as imitative. Much Greek art adorned utilitarian objects, just as Roman art adorned the living spaces. "Comparing and Contrasting Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome." Both Greece and Rome are Mediterranean countries, similar enough latitudinally for both to grow wine and olives. Pantheon. The video is a part of the project British Scientists produced in collaboration between Serious Science and the British Council.. This is an obvious oversimplification. The Roman woman was legally subject to the paterfamilias, whether the dominant male in her household of birth or the household of her husband.