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Eager to be Roman
Greek Response to Roman Rule in Pontus and Bithynia
Eager to be Roman
Greek Response to Roman Rule in Pontus and Bithynia
Description
Eager to be Roman is an important investigation into the ways in which the population of Pontus et Bithynia, a Greek province in the northwestern part of Asia Minor (on the southern shore of the Black Sea), engaged culturally with the Roman Empire. Scholars have long presented Greek provincials as highly attached to their Hellenic background and less affected by Rome's influence than Spaniards, Gauls or Britons. More recent studies have acknowledged that some elements of Roman culture and civic life found their way into Greek communities and that members of the Greek elite obtained Roman citizen rights and posts in the imperial administration, though for purely pragmatic reasons. Drawing on a detailed investigation of literary works and epigraphic evidence, Jesper Madsen demonstrates that Greek intellectuals and members of the local elite in this province were in fact keen to identify themselves as Roman, and that imperial connections and Roman culture were prestigious in the eyes of their Greek readers and fellow-citizens.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Introduction
1. A Governor at Work
2. Roman Rule in Pontus and Bithynia
The Pompeian provincialisation
The polis constitution in Pontus and Bithynia
Emperor-worship: Greek traditions and Roman influence
A question of temples
Greek autonomy and Roman rule
3. Greeks in the Roman World
Greek influence on Roman politics
In Roman service
Roman Greeks
4. Turning Roman in Pontus and Bithynia
Becoming legally Roman
Affiliation to the emperor
Roman names, status and identity
Roman identity and Greek pragmatism
5. Responses to Roman Rule
Dio Chrysostom: a bitter patriot
L. Flavius Arrianus: a Roman authority and a nostalgic Greek
Cassius Dio: a Roman from Bithynia
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
Product details
| Published | 10 Oct 2013 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781472519733 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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