Author: Owen Francis Grazebrook
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Biography of an unknown citizen of Greece during the Peloponnesian war.

Author: Henry Smith Williams
Publisher:
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Category : World History
Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Author: A. J. S. Spawforth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139505025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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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.

Author: Demosthenes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: William Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1420

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1424

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Author: Thomas Spencer Baynes
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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Author: Emil Reich
Publisher:
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Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Author: Greek and Roman biography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1246

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Author: O. F. Grazebrook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107642841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379

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Originally published in 1946, this book uses a fictional autobiography to shed light on the nature of Athenian existence during the Peloponnesian War.