Write a brief essay describing some of the ways the romans adapted and adopted greek culture to form greco-roman culture. the categories: religion, literature, sculpture and painting, and architecture. give specific examples that include greek influences on roman achievements.

The Latin poet Horace famously said "Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit ("Captive Greece captured her crude conqueror"). This line is intended to reflect the reality that although Rome was a great military power and managed to conquer Greece. Culturally, however, Greek ideas and models dominated Rome. The famous rhetorician Quintilian talks about how upper-class Romans had Greek slaves raising their children and says that these children actually spoke Greek better than Latin.