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The Romans and their predecessors on the Italian peninsula, the Etruscans, both copied the Greeks. But art historians don’t call the Roman period a Greek replay. The Romans didn’t merely imitate — they added on to the Greek style, often replacing idealism with realism. The busts and statues of Roman senators and emperors can look tough, chubby, and even pockmarked.

In architecture, the Romans contributed the Roman arch, an invention that helped them to build the biggest system of roads and aqueducts the world has ever seen.