Greece and the Augustan cultural revolution [electronic resource] / A.J.S. Spawforth.
2012
DF240 .S67 2012eb
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Greece and the Augustan cultural revolution [electronic resource] / A.J.S. Spawforth.
Author
Spawforth, Antony.
ISBN
9781139191036 (electronic bk.)
1139191039 (electronic bk.)
9781107012110
1107012112
1139191039 (electronic bk.)
9781107012110
1107012112
Imprint
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 319 p.) : ill.
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DF240 .S67 2012eb
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938/.09
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.
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Greek culture in the Roman world.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.