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Strategies of Remembering in Greece Under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD) (Hardcover)
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Strategies of Remembering in Greece Under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD) (Hardcover)
Series: Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens, VI
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At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent
city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the
first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman
province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the
notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the
governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous
defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that
Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable. In spite of the
definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline.
Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their
legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean.
Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged
actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its
representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest
to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings,
statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is
hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness
on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were
employed as resources in this complex political situation. The
legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing
relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their
interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned
himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while
Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to
fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces
strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture,
festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature,
and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to
the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot
be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex
ways, in order to build the present.
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