The Conqueror Who had been conquered by the Conquered 希腊罗马文化英语论文.docVIP

The Conqueror Who had been conquered by the Conquered I. Abstract Maybe everyone will know a saying: the conqueror had been conquered by the failure that is conquered. In this paper I will describe the difference between Roman and Greek culture to explain that Rome conquered Greece by war, but Rome was conquered by Greek culture. There is a saying in this world: Rome was not built in a day. It aims to tell us that we have to take long time whatever we want to do. But how many people know that this saying has a small mistake. In fact, Roma was built in a day. Archaeologists found a reel what is signed by Caesar and an Ancient Babylon construction company. This reel is a contract what is about Rome. The Ancient Babylon construction company claimed that if they could not build Roma in a day, Caesar would beheading them and feed them to the lions. Archaeologists hold the opinion that this contract is effective because they do not find any mark that the head was bitten by lions. Not only the city, but also the Roman civilization was built for a short time. We know that the Greece was destroyed by Rome but the?origin of Roman civilization is from Greece. So Roman did not develop their civilization, opposite, they inherited the culture from Greece. It likes the saying: built in a day. The most direct relationship what we can find between two civilizations is the language and characters. It is easy to know that the origin of the Greek alphabet is Phoenician alphabet. The official language of Rome is Latin. And the relationship between Greek and Latin is like distant relative. Mythology and civilization is based on words and alphabet. We can find the common?grounds from the words and alphabet so we could find the common?grounds on the culture like mythology. Finally, I want to say, Rome is a conqueror and Greece is conquered. But on the civilization, Rome was conquered by Greece. Whatever the language, alphabet, mythology, especially art, Rome inherited and studied Greek