Colleagues also working on the Greek East under Rome may be interested in a very remarkable inscription from around the 50s BC concerning the financing of the festival of Basileia at Lebadeia in Boeotia – probably the document that brings out the realities in the immediate aftermath of Roman conquest more starkly than any other … Continue reading Basileia at Lebadeia and Roman conquest of Greece| Georgy Kantor's blog
In 146 BC, the Mediterranean world must have been grasped by shock: two among the most important harbour cities in the world, Carthage and Corinth, were destroyed by the Romans in the course of the same year. ‘The two eyes of the sea coast were extinguished’, as Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods 3.91, … Continue reading empire, slavery, violence and Roman politics| Georgy Kantor's blog