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Eager to be Roman : Greek response to Roman rule in Pontus and Bithynia /
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 h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Duckworth,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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.--Book jacket. |
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| Notas: | "This book is a rewritten version of my PhD dissertation, completed at Aarhus University (Denmark) in June 2006 under the supervision of Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen"--Page vii |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 166 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-157) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781472519740 1472519744 9781472540669 1472540662 |