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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history volume 177
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English