Roman Art

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Roman Art

Stuff
Much is made (in these post-reductionist times) of the 
"Roman pest" as well was "PAX Romanica" (ie, join us
or die.

However, in Roman civilisation (as compared to Greek - always
the case) they treated women much more equally (there is 
evidence in the earlie Etruscian society as well). Further,
they were the *great* accumulators of ideas and things - as
with all conquorers. In doing so, it is arguable that they
did much to tie together random bits of technology and 
ideas thus paving the way for the Arab culture to carry
this information thru the so-called "dark ages" -[Medieval era]-

Perhaps there highest calling was the appreciation of
culture as such - often acreting ideas into their own
works and arts. Naturally in sculpture, the Roman copies
are easy to spot due to their "supporting structure".
This would make for an inretestng story as to why they
(clearly the western reductionists that they were) some
how couldn't "get" how the human form stood and at least
mimic/reproduce the Greek brilliance in the stand-alone
statues. Odd things, history; what?

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