Polis romana. Hacia un nuevo modelo para los griegos del Imperio

Abstract

The traditional views about the Greeks in the Roman Empire (i.e. Rome as the new leader of Hellenism, or Greek alienation within the Empire), are not enough to explain the complex process which transformed the Greeks into Romans. Firstly, a new overview is needed: when dealing with the new imperial identity, reciprocity between Rome and the provinces should be acknowledged and become a main focus. Secondly, local and regional diversity should be taken into account, even though it never meant a serious danger to the existence of a common imperial identity. That was the case with the Eastern part of the Empire: the Greek polis went through deep changes -ideological, political, social and economical-, but it became a part of the very idea of Romanness.