Looking for books on Greece and Rome's cultural interplay

[XaMcQ]

I’m specifically looking for material on how Rome wound up adopting, or maybe co-opting so much of the Greek culture. How much of that cultural interchange was going on before and after the conquest of Greece, and why did it happen that way? I’ve found a few references to Roman nobles who were strongly disapproving of this new, decadent Greek influence, but there just doesn’t seem to be much written on the interplay of these two deeply intwined cultures.

The only thing I’ve found so far is 'Taken at the Flood:'
By Robin Waterfield

Website material also welcome. Audio books a plus!

[MrDibble]

@XaMcQ

How much of that cultural interchange was going on before and after the conquest of Greece, and why did it happen that way?

Don’t know about books, but there were Greek colonies on the Italian peninsula since before Rome became a republic, so the Hellenic influences way predate the Roman conquest of Greece itself. By like 650 years.