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Author Madsen, Jesper Majbom

Title Eager to be Roman : Greek response to Roman rule in Pontus and Bithynia / Jesper Majbom Madsen
Published London : Duckworth, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 166 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents A Governor at Work -- Roman Rule in Pontus and Bithynia -- The Pompeian provincialisation --The polis constitution in Pontus and Bithynia -- Emperor-worship : Greek traditions and Roman influence -- A question on temples -- Greek autonomy and Roman rule -- Greeks in the Roman World -- Greek influence on Roman politics -- In Roman service -- Roman Greeks -- Turning Roman in Pontus and Bithynia -- Becoming legally Roman -- Affiliation to the emperor -- Roman names, status and identity -- Roman identity and Greek pragmatism -- Responses to Roman rule -- Dio Chrysostom : a bitter patriot -- L. Flavius Arrianus : a Roman authority and a nostalgic Greek -- Cassius Dio : a Roman from Bithynia
Summary 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
Notes "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-157) and indexes
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Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Civilization -- Roman influences
Roman colonies
Kulturkontakt
Culturele identiteit.
SUBJECT Pontus -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104825
Bithynia -- History
Pontus -- Civilization -- Roman influences
Bithynia -- Civilization -- Roman influences
Rome -- Turkey -- Colonies
Subject Mediterranean Region -- Pontus
Turkey
Turkey -- Bithynia
Bithynia et Pontus
Römisches Reich
Anatolië.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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