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    The Romans were more artistic than the Greeks in their architecture. They created grand interior spaces with high ceilings, unlike the cramped Greek interiors. While the Greeks featured human-scaled buildings, Roman structures were flamboyant and dramatic. The Romans also refined building domes and developed different dome shapes, like in the Pantheon, rather than being influenced by the Greeks. Additionally, the Romans improved on Greek classical orders and invented their own ornate styles like the Tuscan and composite orders.

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    The Romans were more artistic than the Greeks in their architecture. They created grand interior spaces with high ceilings, unlike the cramped Greek interiors. While the Greeks featured human-scaled buildings, Roman structures were flamboyant and dramatic. The Romans also refined building domes and developed different dome shapes, like in the Pantheon, rather than being influenced by the Greeks. Additionally, the Romans improved on Greek classical orders and invented their own ornate styles like the Tuscan and composite orders.

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    The Romans were more artistic than the Greeks in their architecture. They created grand interior spaces with high ceilings, unlike the cramped Greek interiors. While the Greeks featured human-scaled buildings, Roman structures were flamboyant and dramatic. The Romans also refined building domes and developed different dome shapes, like in the Pantheon, rather than being influenced by the Greeks. Additionally, the Romans improved on Greek classical orders and invented their own ornate styles like the Tuscan and composite orders.

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    Who are the most Artistic?

    1st ARGUMENT: Romans were able to create interior spaces that had previously been unheard of. They became
    increasingly concerned with shaping interior space rather than filling it with structural supports. As a result, the inside of
    Roman buildings was as impressive as their exteriors.

    2nd ARGUMENT: While Greek buildings tended to feature cramped interiors built on a more human scale, Roman
    buildings had dramatically high ceilings and were generally more flamboyant and grandiose than their Greek
    counterparts. An example of which is the Pantheon.

    3rd ARGUMENT: While the ancient Romans did not invent domes, they refined the techniques with which to build them,
    developed an extensive repertoire of shapes, expanded their potential sizes and ascribed a rich variety of functions and
    meanings to the domes they built. Furthermore, the dome-shaped architecture of the Romans is not influenced by
    Greeks, instead they came from more ancient civilizations like that of Mesopotamia. An example of this structure is the
    dome-shaped Pantheon found in Rome.

    4th ARGUMENT: The Greeks classical orders were mere references while the work of Romans is the improved version.
    The Romans added their own ideas and their version of the Corinthian capital making it more decorative compared to
    that of the Greeks. The Romans also invented the Tuscan and composite design whose intricate style tops all of the
    other classical orders created by the Greeks. An upgrade indeed.

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