ABSTRACT
While the Greek period was temporal and aesthete, Roman architecture may be regarded as secular, expansive and demonstrative of power and status. Above all, Rome was dismissive of Greek effeminacy and trickery but was admiring of its achievements in philosophical thought, artistry and subtlety. Rome absorbed the Greek styles and adapted them to suit its own purpose. Rome extended and developed the art of the Greek architect but used it to achieve a more secular, perhaps less artistic, focus which demonstrated power and subjugation of those it conquered and vanquished. If the Greek was art through architecture then the Roman was architecture to demonstrate power and status.
