leisure activities ( as opposed topolicy).9 Attending these games was apart of the Roman social duty. Some argued that thepassion in which these spectacles where carried out was too excessive. Others did not agree. Asis still the case today with many modern day sporting actives. For the first time the Romanswhere given this freedom and with out hesitance they took advantage of their time wither or notthat lead to the fall of Rome can be defiantly argued still today.One of the great pleasures of the Roman Empire was the literary works. Although most ifnot all of the Roman writings that still exist today, that were produced by the Roman writers,were based in some part on the Homeric Greek style of writing. One major difference appearedbetween the Greeks and Romans in the literacy department, the common people of Rome neverattained the high plane of literacy that the Athenians did.10 One major reason for that was thefact that most of the literacy works were written in Greek, and had to be translated into Latin. Many of the texts translated into Latin was done by the Roman philosopher Cicero (106 - 143 A.D.) during his translation of Greek texts into Latin. He created a more flexible and sophisticatedtype of Latin language. Ciceros Latin became the model for western Europes use of letter andwas used as standard language in Renaissance Europe and is still widely taught today. Plauies andTerence were two very significant Roman playwrights, basically the only two playwrights thatRome produced. They where very similar in to the Greek in the style. They wanted to simulatethe writing style of Homer and other great Greek writers. One of the most noted writers to comeout of Rome was Vergil ( 70 - 19 B. C.). Vergil was a famous Roman poet that wrote TheAeneid, this was modeled after Homers The Odyssey. Yet something that was original to Romewas a doctor Galen, who wrote a book of standard medical practices that was still used until the...
