Romans and dacians

1. Romans and dacians By:Bianca Vaduva Mihai Coana Robert Zgarbura

2. The roman art has in vew not only the one put in shape on the italian gronds, but also the one that the romans have borown from the lads they conquerd: Asia Minor, Germany, Dacia and others. The romans have taken very much from the originality that other people have developed. After the conquest of Corinth, a considerable amount of art pieces where brought to Rome, painting statues and splendid colums . From that time on art spred acrous the roman lands bun was not seen as a job even thow emperors like nero and hardian used painting as a form of spending their free time . The roman artists where later able to reproduce famous pieces of art. As an inspiration and stile, the choice of the motives and enuntiation of teritories, the roman art used arthistic greek laguage. The romans were asalted by new curents and artistic forms, but the roman artists didn't opose them more then that they were happy to acept new forms of expretion.

3. As an integration into the greek related world, the roman art was dominated by arhitecture . The form of buiding was perfected in the 2 century bc when they dicovered a kind of ciment, that was very useful in constructions. The romans were well known in the ancient world by the ipresive bridges that they built for example the one built to get across the Danube by the architect Apollodor of Damascus . A tipical roman building was the amphiteatre; the first aphiteatre built partialy out of stone was the one built by Augustus in Rome . The roman architecture had 4 distinc stiles that could be very easily differenciented by loking at the capitolium;the 4 stiles were : the doric stile, the ionic stile, the eolic stile and the corithian stile.

4. When the romans conquered Dacia,they brought their language(latin), their customs,their beliefs and don’t forget their culture,which I consider the most important.

5. First of all,some practical and ornamental items and tools were been imported,such as pottery(within II-III centuries A.D.),a new kind of plough and so on.Next,dacians learned some skills from the roman colonialists and started to group toghether in handicraft associations,called “collegia”(1),especialy in towns,but there were also in villages like Micia and Cristeşti.And,finally,some buildings full of roman arhitecture appeared.I’m talking about temples,amphitheatres,public baths(“thermae”(2)) and monuments pyramid-shaped with their sides bond, the last ones found also in roman provinces west of Dacia(Pannonia, Noricum, Raetia and even North Italy).

8. Another efect of this influence is that dacians started to believe in a lot of gods.The roman ones were the first in this hierachy(Iuppiter, Diana, Silvanus,Venus…) but I can’t neglect some oriental gods such as Mithras, which is persian.And,here appears the so called “syncretism”(3)-some similar gods became one and “interpretatio Romana”(4)-dacian gods were called by roman names.

10. As a conclusion,we think that romans really improoved a lot our culture by theirs.It was a true benefit for dacians to be conquered by romans.