serpents with his sons because of this.This sculpture is known for its successful depiction of theof Laocoon's face-fear, II.Roman Culture (pp.37-49) sympathy and terror. 1.Romans and Greeks (pp.37-38) [Key:Troy expressions] 1.The burning of Corinth in marked the Roman conquest of d.Pottery (pp.34-35) Greece,which was then reduced to a province of the Roman Empire. 1.The flourishing of the Greek pottery was a result of [Key:146B.c.] [Key:domestic needs and needs for foreign trade] w was the language of the western half of the Roman Empire, 9.Impact (pp.35-36) that of the eastern half. 1.Rediscovery of Greek culture played a vital part in the [Key:Latin Greek] Italy and other European countries. What did the Romans have in common with the Greeks?And what was the [Key:Renaissance] chief difference between them?(p.38) 2.Karl Marx,once wrote about the Greeks:"Why should't the childhood of 1.The Romans had a lot in common with the human society...exercise an eternal charm,as?" [Key:Greeks]. [Key:an age that will never return] 2.Both the Romans and Greeks had rooted in the idea of the a.Spirit of Innovation citizen-assembly,hostile to monarchy and to servility. 1.The Greeks invented mathematics and science and philosophy;they [Key:traditions] first wrote history as opposed to mere annals;they speculated freely 3.Their were alike enough for most of their deities to be about the of the world and the ends of life,without being readily identified-Greek Zeus with Roman Jupiter (/'d3u:prt(r)/), bound in the fetters of any inherited orthodoxy. Greek Aphrodite (/efrau'darti/)with.Roman Venus,and so on-and [key:nature their myths to be fused. b.Supreme Achievement [Key:religions] 1.The Greeks achieved supreme achievements in nearly all fields of 4.Theirworked in similar ways,and were ultimately related, both being members of the Indo-European language family which [key:human endeavour] stretches from Bangladesh(/'bagla,def/盂加拉)to Iceland. c.Lasting Effect [Key:languages] 1.The Greeks set an example by the bold effort they made to understand 5.There was one big difference.The Romans built up a vast the world by the use of the Greeks didn't,except for the brief moment of Alexander's [key:human reason] conquests,which soon disintegrated. [Key:empire] 2.Roman History (p.38) 1.The year divided the history of Rome into two periods. 12 13 容经