 This came initially from Magna Graecia, the Greek colonies in southern Italy, and indirectly from Greek influence on the Etruscans, but after the Roman conquest of Greece directly from the best classical and Hellenistic examples in the Greek world.The influence is evident in many ways; for example, in the introduction and use of the triclinium in Roman villas as a place and manner of dining.Roman builders employed Greeks in many capacities, especially in the great boom in construction in the early Empire.