TY - GEN N2 - "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"-- AB - "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"-- T1 - Greece and the Augustan cultural revolution DA - 2012. CY - Cambridge, UK ; CY - New York : AU - Spawforth, Antony. CN - EBSCOhost CN - DF240 PB - Cambridge University Press, PP - Cambridge, UK ; PP - New York : PY - 2012. ID - 446015 KW - Social change KW - Elite (Social sciences) KW - Ethnicity KW - Acculturation KW - Political culture KW - Cities and towns, Ancient SN - 9781139191036 (electronic bk.) SN - 1139191039 (electronic bk.) TI - Greece and the Augustan cultural revolution LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=409076 LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2011032625-t.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2011032625-d.html LK - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2011032625-b.html LK - http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/12110/cover/9781107012110.jpg UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=409076 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2011032625-t.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2011032625-d.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2011032625-b.html UR - http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/12110/cover/9781107012110.jpg ER -