Format:
1 online resource (330 pages)
ISBN:
9781139186131
Series Statement:
Greek Culture in the Roman World
Content:
An examination of the reflections of the Augustan cultural revolution in the cities and sanctuaries of Roman Greece.
Content:
Cover -- GREECE AND THE AUGUSTAN CULTURAL REVOLUTION -- GREEK CULTURE IN THE ROMAN WORLD -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Greece and the Augustan age -- THE AUGUSTAN 'MORAL REVOLUTION' -- ROMAN IMAGES OF GREECE -- AUGUSTAN CLASSICISM -- AUGUSTUS AND THE GREEK WORLD -- AUGUSTUS AND NICOPOLIS -- GREEK PROVINCIAL ELITES -- CHAPTER 2 'Athenian eloquence and Spartan arms' -- ATHENS: THE AGRIPPEUM -- SPARTA: THE 'COMMON DINING' (SYSSITIA) -- CHAPTER 3 'The noblest actions of the Greeks'1 -- ROMAN VIEWS -- ATHENS -- SPARTA -- PLATAEA -- CHAPTER 4 'The gifts of the gods'1 -- BEFORE AUGUSTUS -- AUGUSTUS -- BODIES OF 'SACRED ELDERS' -- MESSENE, THE CARNEASIUM AND ARGOS -- SPARTA -- ATHENS -- CHAPTER 5 'Constructed beauty' -- MESSENE -- ATHENS AND SPARTA -- OLYMPIA -- MANTINEA -- CHAPTER 6 Hadrian and the legacy of Augustus -- AUGUSTAN GREECE IN LARGER CONTEXT -- FROM AUGUSTUS TO HADRIAN -- IMPERIAL POLICY UNDER HADRIAN -- SPARTA -- PLATAEA AND THE PERSIAN WARS -- ELEUSIS, ATHENS AND THE PANHELLENION -- THE ETHNIC IDENTITY OF THE PANHELLENION -- THE MILITARY DIMENSION: THE 'EASTERN HADRIANIC BREASTPLATE TYPE' -- OPPOSITION? -- ATTICISM AND THE SECOND SOPHISTIC -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107012110
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107012110
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Spawforth, Antony Greece and the Augustan cultural revolution Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012 ISBN 9781107012110
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1107012112
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Griechenland
;
Kultur
;
Römisches Reich
;
Geschichte 27 v. Chr.-14
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