Ruling the Greek World

Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East

Juan Manuel Cortes Copete, Elena Muniz Grijalvo, Fernando Lozano Gomez

• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9783515111362
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

This e-book analyses the procedures, ideas and realities that allowed the people from the Greek East to become a part of the Roman Empire, while both preserving and redeveloping their cultural identity. The volume assesses this complex process both in the traditional Greek cities of the provinces of Achaea and Asia as well as in other areas that had been deeply hellenised for centuries, as the Near East. A common point of departure of the different essays is the notion that granting the Greeks a privileged position within the Roman Empire as a tribute to their civilisation was as possible an option as that of "barbarisation", i.e. the substitution of Greek cultural identity by the Roman one. Between the respect and conservation of political and cultural structures, and their total annihilation and substitution by new realities of undeniable Roman stamp, there existed a wide spectrum of political possibilities with strong cultural and religious undertones. In creating those new options, which Rome either opted for, refused, or transformed, the political and cultural activity of the Greeks themselves, and in particular the oligarchs who ruled the cities in the Mediterranean East, played an important role. This volume attempts to analyse all those new possibilities.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• EDITORS’ PREFACE
• GREEK SELF-PRESENTATION TO THE ROMAN REPUBLICAN POWER
• GREEK RELIGION AS A FEATURE OF GREEK IDENTITY
• HELLAS, ROMAN PROVINCE
• IMPERIUM ROMANUM AND THE RELIGIOUS CENTRES OF ASIA MINOR
• DURA-EUROPOS UNDER ROMAN RULE
• OFFICIAL IMAGES IN ATHENS IN THE MIDDLE-IMPERIAL PERIOD
• A DIALOGUE ON POWER: EMPEROR WORSHIP IN THE DELPHIC AMPHICTYONY
• GREEK ARCHAEOLOGISTS AT ROME
• STRABON ET PLUTARQUE: REGARDS CROISÉS SUR L’HÉGÉMONIA TÔN RHÔMAIÔN
• THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WORKS OF AELIUS ARISTIDES
• GENERAL INDEX