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Greece and the Augustan cultural revolution [electronic resource] / A.J.S. Spawforth.
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TextSeries: Greek culture in the Roman worldPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: viii, 319 p. : illSubject(s): - Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Influence
- Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, 76-138 -- Influence
- Social change -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
- Elite (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
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- DF240 .S67 2012
Contents:
Summary: "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.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Greece and the Augustan age; 2. Athenian eloquence and Spartan arms; 3. The noblest actions of the Greeks; 4. The gifts of the gods; 5. Constructed beauty; 6. Hadrian and the legacy of Augustus; Conclusion.
