“The Etruscans were influenced by the Greeks and knew them literally “through” Rome. They sent skillfully crafted bronze household utensils along the Tiber, through Rome, and then to the Greeks to the south in exchange for Greek vases...” Basically, Rome was the intermediate civilization between the two that could use the route for trade, sharing information and goods, and influencing other civilizations. As noted in the textbook, the Romans did not write or mention Roman artists. Instead, they write about skilled Greeks – Polykleitos, Phidias, Praxiteles, Lysippus. “…Roman art is not only a continuation of Greek art. The Romans were very different from the Greeks, and so their art is different in terms of emphasis and focus… They were superb engineers. Their sculpture and painting are realistic, with an emphasis on details – specific people, places and times…” For architecture, the Romans chose the Greek orders and were influenced by Etruscan architecture. “…The Romans made the Doric columns taller and thinner and gave them a base.” The Romans used the composite order and used columns in their architecture while the Greeks did not. In comparison, the Greeks and Romans constructed their buildings using ashlar masonry. For walls, the Romans used “different types of patterned stones.” And finally, for temples, the Romans created rectangular temples in the middle of the first century BCE. The Etruscans made their temples with "a raised platform or podium, the entrance at one end only by ascending a staircase, a porch which occupies about a third of the total surface of the podium, and a cella almost as wide as the