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Becoming Roman, staying Greek: Culture, identity and the civilizing process in the Roman East*

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Greg Woolf
Greg Woolf
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Brasenose College, Oxford
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The nature, and indeed the reality, of Romanization in the east is controversial. One of the most influential accounts of Romanization in the western provinces notes that ‘by contrast, where Greek was already the language of culture, of government and of inter-regional trade, the Romans carried further the process of Hellenization … in general what was specifically Latin in the common civilization of the empire made little impact in the east’, the exceptions being the influence of Roman law and the popularity of gladiatorial games. That verdict endorsed the view that ‘the emperors made no attempt to romanise the Greek speaking provinces’, which saw the foundation of cities as a continuance of Hellenistic royal practice, and which regarded the establishment of the rare eastern colonies as motivated by practical considerations rather than any attempt at encouraging cultural assimilation. More recently, a fuller survey of exceptions to this general rule nevertheless concluded that ‘On the one hand, the culture and identity of the Greek east remained fundamentally rooted in the Classical past. On the other hand, the visible presence of Rome, outside those zones where the legions were stationed, was extremely slight.’

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Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (Second Series) , Volume 40 , 1994 , pp. 116 - 143
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24. See Edwards (n. 23) passim on the centrality of morality in defining Roman identity. For the Greeks, membership of a common political community was more important as a component of Athenian, Spartan, Argive, Boeotian identities etc., than of Greek identity per se, and although participation in a common religious community underwrote both Greek and Roman identities, for Greeks the majority of cults had long been located within the framework of the politically plural world of the polis.

25. Pliny, Epistles 8.24; cf. Cicero, Ad Quintum fratrem 1.1.28.

26. Principally the preoccupation of imperial period Greeks with their past, although other influential ideas may have been notions of natural cycles of the growth, apogee and decline of cities and empires and in some areas also ideas of decline resulting from truphe and wealth.

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51. Pace Yegül (n. 5) 355: ‘Rome addressed the issue of hellenization with caution and without a consistent policy; similarly, the east took to Roman ways with a like degree of caution and inconsistency.’ Yet there is little in the Second Sophistic to compare with Roman discourse about Hellenization. Note however Yegül's useful reminder that many architectural techniques and styles may have carried no specific ethnic or cultural referents or connotations for many who used them. That may well have been truer for Greeks, who do not seem to have regarded architectural style as a major signifier of cultural affiliation, than for the Romans who, to judge from Vitruvius and Tacitus, regarded the construction of some kinds of buildings as at least a sign of civilization, and of others as an indication of dangerously un-Roman activity; cf. especially Edwards (n. 23) 137–72 and in general Wallace-Hadrill (n. 23).

52. I hope to discuss these developments more fully in the future in a work provisionally entitled Becoming Roman in Gaul.

53. Bowersock (n. 23) 7.

54. Strabo, Geography 1.4.9. The work none the less reflects a consciousness of variable degrees of civilization among the peoples of the world which tends to undermine the idea of a sharp dichotomy in these terms between Greeks and barbarians, cf. e.g. 2.5.26 and 3.2.15.

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66. Price (n. 43) 53–77 and Wallace-Hadrill, ‘Roman arches …’ (n. 22) show what can be gained from treating worship and the giving of honours as cultural systems. Difficulties only arise if these systems, composed of loosely associated sets of habits, expectations and associations which give meaning to individual acts and so make both creativity and its appreciation possible, are confused with functionalist systems which represent symbolism as a shared property or set of activities that acts as a social glue. My point is precisely that Roman and Greek cultural systems were not perfectly shared, and so, although the use of these rhetorical and symbolic strategies did have integrative effects, it also operated to maintain distinctions which were divisive.

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