@article{1398315,
      author = {Spawforth, Antony.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1398315},
      title = {Greece and the Augustan cultural revolution [electronic  resource] /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      recid = {1398315},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 319 p.) :},
      address = {Cambridge, UK ;},
      year = {2012},
}