Greek architecture and expanded upon it, creating cities with modern day amenities.  These cities contained roads, aqueducts for water supply, public baths and lavatories, sewers and even public transportation.  Their buildings were more for practical use and, therefore, displayed a more structured form, than did the Greek style.  Such were the achievements of their culture, the influence of Roman infrastructure stood unchallenged for centuries, after the empire’s decline.
Image Resources:  Greatbuildings.com and, The Story of Architecture, by Jonathan Glancey
Resources:   The Story of Architecture, by Jonathan Glancey, and The History of Interior Design, by John Pile
Fascinating, ornate, practical and sophisticated are just a few words, used to describe Greek and Roman architecture.  The dawn of what we know, as “a civilized world”, possibly began with the Greeks.  During the fifth century B.C., their society produced architects, engineers, mathematicians and artists.  Aegean architecture and Egyptian design influenced Greek builders, who produced artistic, proportional and elegant designs in their constructions. The Greek alphabet and writing system, developed around 900 B.C.E., enabled records of their achievements to be kept and preserved.  Rome, founded in 753 B.C.E., was a more brute and soldiering civilization, and eventually conquered the whole “western” world.  The Romans “borrowed” basic
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