Ancient Greece was very strict with the use of their capitals, using Doric for strength, Ionic for wisdom, and Corinthian for beauty, and this resembles the strict adherence to tradition in the larger architectural time period. Ancient Rome took more liberties in its capitals and their application, adding the Italic orders and superposed orders, both of which display Ancient Rome’s exploration into ornamentalism and varied interpretation of tradition. Byzantine capitals stray completely from the Greco-Roman tradition, and this literal abstraction led to an artistically abstract, intricate, and geometrically experimental architecture style. Romanesque capitals return to the Corinthian tradition but with much more decoration and artistic freedoms, similar to how the Romanesque period as a whole takes the Roman ideas of arches, vaults, ornate reliefs, and expands upon them.