Introduction

This introductory chapter of this book on Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing gives overview on the various aspects discussed in the book. The book gathers chapters on a variety of authors, across several literary prose genres and documentary texts, and through this spectrum, makes possible a comparison of educated Greek and Latin views of Roman power (in various manifestations, including military, religion, law and politics). This comparison proves valuable to understanding of the relationships between culture(s) and authority in a diverse imperialist society. The first two chapters of the book offer contrasting pictures of Greek participation in aspects of Roman power over a wide chronological range. Across the chapters of the book, the visions of imperial government and culture that Greek- and Latin-speaking writers from the late first to mid third centuries command are seen to be resistant to tidy linguistic compartmentalisation. Keywords: diverse imperialist society; Greek participation; imperial government; linguistic compartmentalisation; Roman power

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• Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece

  Estelle Strazdins•Fashioning the Future in Roman…•2023

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