CLA260H1 Chapter 1: CLA260H1 Textbook Notes Notes Chapters 1,8,27,28,14-19
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Preface y specialty in research can provide a restricting tunnel vision. As such, greek culture and knowledge spread beyond it s intended geography. In turn, rome s conquering of greece, and much of europe have left them a huge legacy as being influential on the history of much of europe. Although the visigoths and vandals destroyed rome in 400 a. d, it s religious legacy continues to live on. The predecessor to the catholic church is without a doubt the roman empire which adopted the christian religion and until 1963 used. Latin. y classical greek was only recognized as classics by the romans, in an attempt to learn to become cultured, a conscious decision to be hellenized in the greek culture. Absorbing the literature, artwork and architecture to set themselves up on the base of the greeks. Greek culture was the equivalency to culture itself, homer was poetry, phidias sculpting, demosthenes oration.
