num_pages: 200
description: The proceedings from a 1996 conference held at Lincoln, Nebraska, these papers demonstrate that the Athenians, far from losing their identity, continued to practice their old traditions, adapting only fitfully to Roman customs and culture; although Athens, like every other Greek city was affected by contact with the Romans The problem of Romanization, the power of Athens (Susan Alcock); Roman citizens in Athens 228-31 BC (Christian Habicht); The Athenian elite (Daniel Geagan); Sulla's siege of Athens in 87/86 BC and its aftermath (Michael Hoff); The Tower of the Winds in Hellenistic or Roman? (Hermann Kienast); Athens under Augustus (Susan Walker); Attic sculpture after Sulla (Olga Palagia); From Greek to Roman in Athenian cermaics (Susan Rotroff); Shipping amphoras as indicators of economic romanization in Athens (Elizabeth Lyding Will); Coinage as an index of romanization (John Kroll); Plutarch and the romanization of Athens (Robert Lamberton); Eleusis and the Late Republic to Marcus Aurelius (Kevin Clinton); The early reception of the imperial cult in Athens (Antony Spawforth).
language: English
title: The Romanization of Athens
titlecomplete: The Romanization of Athens (Oxbow Monographs)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Oxbow Books