Romia kulturo: Malsamoj inter versioj

Estis granda kvanto de [[komerco]] inter la provincoj de la Romia Imperio, ĉsincear ties transporta teknologio estis tre efektiva. La averaĝaj kostoj de transporto kaj la teknologio estis kompareblaj kun tiuj de la 18a-jarcenta Eŭropo. La posta urbo Romo ne same okupis la spacon ene de ties antikva [[Aŭrelia Murego]] ĝis post 1870.

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Starting in the middle of the 2nd century BC, private [[Culture of ancient Greece|Greek culture]] was increasingly in ascendancy, in spite of tirades against the "softening" effects of Hellenized culture from the conservative moralists. By the time of [[Augustus]], cultured Greek household slaves taught the Roman young (sometimes even the girls); chefs, decorators, secretaries, doctors, and hairdressers all came from the [[Greek East]]. Greek sculptures adorned Hellenistic landscape gardening on the Palatine or in the villas, or were imitated in Roman sculpture yards by Greek slaves. The [[Roman cuisine]] preserved in the cookery books ascribed to [[Apicius]] is essentially Greek. Roman writers disdained [[Latin]] for a cultured Greek style. Only in law and governance was the Italic nature of Rome's accretive culture supreme.