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Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution (Greek Culture in the Roman World) by Spawforth, Antony. is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 stereotyp
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- Author
- Spawforth, Antony.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781107012110
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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