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Greece and the Augustan cultural revolution

Spawforth, Antony

2012

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\"This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy. Against a background of Roman debates about Greek culture and Roman decadence, Augustus promoted the ideal of a Roman debt to a 'classical' Greece rooted in Europe and morally opposed to a stereotyped Asia. In Greece the regime signalled its admiration for Athens, Sparta, Olympia and Plataea as symbols of these past Greek glories. Cued by the Augustan monarchy, provincial-Greek notables expressed their Roman orientation by competitive cultural work (revival of ritual; restoration of buildings) aimed at further emphasising Greece's 'classical' legacy. Reprised by Hadrian, the Augustan construction of 'classical' Greece helped to promote the archaism typifying Greek culture under the principate\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. Influence. / Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138 Influence. / Geschichte 27 v. Chr.-14. / Social change Greece History To 1500. / Elites (Social sciences) Greece History To 1500. / Ethnicity Greece History To 1500. / Acculturation Greece History To 1500. / Political culture Greece History To 1500. / Cities and towns, Ancient Greece. / Greece Civilization Roman influences. / Greece Moral conditions.
• ISBN: 9781107012110, 1107012112

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DF240.S67 2012	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE