Empire by Invitation: Greek Political Strategies and Roman Imperial Interventions in the Second Century B.C.E

Greek politicians in the second century B.C.E. increasingly turned to Roman authorities in order to defeat their political opposition. Charges of demagoguery and socio-economic revolution became commonplace in these political struggles in the presence of Roman authority. This evidence provides a key...

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Published inTransactions of the American Philological Association (1974) Vol. 137; no. 2; pp. 255 - 275
Main Author Champion, Craige
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press 01.10.2007
Johns Hopkins University Press
Subjects
City states
Cluster on Literary and Material Culture in Hellenistic Greece
Confederation
Conservatism
Economic reform
Embassies
Greek language
Imperialism
Language history
Political revolutions
Politicians
Politics
Socioeconomics
Upper houses
War
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Summary:Greek politicians in the second century B.C.E. increasingly turned to Roman authorities in order to defeat their political opposition. Charges of demagoguery and socio-economic revolution became commonplace in these political struggles in the presence of Roman authority. This evidence provides a key to understanding a famous inscription dating to 144/143 B.C.E. (Syll.3 684), which records a letter from the Roman praetorian proconsul to Macedonia, relaying his ruling on recent civil unrest in Achaean Dyme. More importantly, Greek appeals to Roman power, such as we find in Syll.3 684, support a model of second-century Roman imperial expansion in Greece focusing on the imperial periphery rather than the imperial metropole.
ISSN:0360-5949
1533-0699
2575-7180
1533-0699
2575-7199
DOI:10.1353/apa.2008.0004