RE: A documentary on the Roman empire
January 14, 2013 at 11:53 am
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2013 at 11:54 am by Minimalist.)
In the words of Sextus Julius Frontinus in "The Aqueducts"
The Romans did prefer the practical. If they needed something decorative they got some Greek slave to do it for them.
Quote:16. With such an array of indispensable structures carrying so many waters, compare, if you will, the idle Pyramids or the useless, though famous, works of the Greeks!
The Romans did prefer the practical. If they needed something decorative they got some Greek slave to do it for them.