One of the Roman's greatest acheivements was their large amount of art. They created forms of art, fine tuned other existing forms to suit their needs, and created an extensive body of literature. Roman art in it's heyday was a pinnacle of human artistic achevement and it is truely a shame that hardly any of it still exists. The bas relief sculpture form was a completely Roman invention. It was a form of sculpture like no other at the time. It projected a portion of a figure or image from a flat surface, creating a three-dimensional pictur ....