The Victors Vanquished: How Greece's Culture Conquered Rome

The Victors Vanquished: How Greece's Culture Conquered Rome

The Parthenon and the Colosseum. Public Domain “Greece, conquered Greece, her conqueror subdued, And Rome grew polished, who till then was rude.” Horace, the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, l…