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Of all the types of object we have from the Classical past, perhaps none so typifies our sense of ancient religion as the altar (Figure 3.1). 2 Altars are everywhere, with an impressive spectrum of possible artistic embellishments, inscribed ancient languages and contextual settings.
The Greek culture of the Roman Empire offers a rich field of study. Extraordinary insights can be gained into processes of multicultural contact and exchange, political and ideological conflict, and the creativity of a changing, polyglot Empire.
Much recent work has focused on the uses of Greek culture at Rome, for example to distinguish between individuals, to differentiate between social classes, and as a cultural resource that might be drawn on when innovation was required and enabled by empire: cf. the works cited in nn. 19, 21 and 22 and also Rawson, E. D., Intellectual life in ...
“Greek culture in the Roman world,” begs the question: What is Greek? What is Roman? And what is the nature of the distinction? Persyn and Griffis rise to the chal-lenge of answering by showing how their texts construct and deconstruct cultural difference: the categories of Greek and Roman are not a given, but must be created
18 Αυγ 2020 · The Hellenistic Period refers to the time between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) and the rise of the Roman Empire (32 BCE) in which Greek culture spread throughout the Mediterranean and Near East.
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century CE witnessed the final phases of European colonialism around the world; the virtual enslavement of entire nations was justified by various means, including explicit comparison with Greek colonization or the imperial expansion of Rome. V. Gordon Childe’s diffusionist models of ex oriente lux ...
did Romans understand Romanization? How did they regard Greek culture and their role in relation to it? and How did Greeks understand these cultural changes? Most obviously such questions might lead to over-simplistic answers; answers that assume the existence of single unified 'Roman' and 'Greek' viewpoints and identities, without
