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View figure 5-24, Polykleitos, Spear Bearer (Doryphoros,) and figure 6-20, the Augustus of Primaporta. What things do you find similar between the Greek classical statue and the Roman early imperial? What is different?

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View the exterior elevation of the Colosseum in Rome. [Image 43 in Chapter 6]. Remembering that Greek buildings tended to be purely one order, what does this Roman combination of orders say about the Roman handling of their inheritance from Greek tradition?

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View figures 5-34 and 6-53 of the Greek Parthenon and the Roman Pantheon, respectively. What aspects of the Pantheon are borrowed or adapted from Greek architectural practice? What things are uniquely Roman?

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