The province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE : the past present /
"The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE explores the conception and utilization of the Greek past in the Roman province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE, and the reception of the artistic, cultural, and intellectual outputs of this century in later periods. Achaea, often defined by interna...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2022.
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| Series: | Routledge monographs in classical studies.
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of Tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Map of Achaea with major cities, mid-2nd century CE
- Map of the Roman Empire in the mid-2nd century CE
- Introduction: collective historical nostalgia in 2nd-century Achaea / Anna Kouremenos
- Memory and identity among the Ephebes of 2nd-century Achaea / Nigel M. Kennell
- Pausanias Book X: a detour to the fringes of "Classical" Greece / Frank Daubner
- Hadrian and the dramatic festivals of Achaea / Mali Skotheim
- The Battle of Chaeronea: nostalgia vs. idealism in 2nd-Century-CE Greek prose / Sulochana R. Asirvatham
- Hadrianos Olympios Panhellenios: worshipping Hadrian in Athens / Francesco Camia
- Remembering Philopoemen: Achaean pasts and presents of Messene in the 2nd Century CE / Eliza Gettel
- Politics of the past: Marcus Aurelius and Commodus in Achaea / Giorgos Mitropoulos
- Herodes Atticus and the sanctuaries of Achaea: re-interpreting the Roman present via the Greek past / Estelle Strazdins
- Remembering Classical Greece: Hadrianic and Antonine imperial portrait sculpture / Panagiotis Konstantinidis
- Between the local past and a global phenomenon: Isiaca in 2nd-century Achaea / Dafni Maikidou-Poutrino
- Sculpture for "Ordinary" people in 2nd-century Achaea / Stylianos E. Katakis
- The past in the round: Roman provincial coinage in the Argolid / David Weidgenannt
- Hispania Graeca: Hadrian as a champion of Hellenic culture in the West / Juan Manuel Cortés Copete
- "The City of Hadrian and not of Theseus": a cultural history of Hadrian's Arch / Anna Kouremenos
- Epilogue / Ewen Bowie
- Index.