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Please HELP! Write a brief essay describing some of the ways the Romans adapted and adopted Greek culture to form Greco-Roman culture. The categories: Religion, Literature, Sculpture and Painting, and Architecture. Give specific examples that include Greek influences on Roman achievements.

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The Latin poet Horace famously said "Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit ("Captive Greece captured her crude conqueror"). This line is intended to reflect the reality that although Rome was a great military power and managed to conquer Greece. Culturally, however, Greek ideas and models dominated Rome. The famous rhetorician Quintilian talks about how upper-class Romans had Greek slaves raising their children and says that these children actually spoke Greek better than Latin.

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