Rome Conquered Greece — Then Greece Conquered Rome

Rome conquered Greece in 146 BC. And then the strangest thing happened — the winners spent centuries desperately trying to become the losers.

Greek statues, Greek slaves as tutors, Greek education for Roman sons, Greek gods renamed, Greek comedies adapted into Latin.

Cato the Elder warned against Greek culture his whole life. Then quietly learned Greek anyway.

Horace said it best: ‘Captured Greece took her savage conqueror captive.’
Rome won every war and handed its soul to the people it had beaten.