CLST 2101 Chapter : CLST 2101 Unit 6 Roman Greece Chronological Backbone
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Roman greece chronological backbone: this unit begins in 30 bc, when rome has conquered the last of the hellenistic empires (unit 5) and ends in ad 305, when the roman emperor diocletian retires. This is the period of the roman empire and, as such, a subject of study in its own right, so this unit merely highlights a few people and items of particular interest for the history of the. The republican constitution described by polybius is replaced by a monarchy. Henceforth we speak of roman emperors and the roman empire: greece (under the latin title achaea) remained a province of the roman empire. As in the hellenistic period, the power of the greeks lay not in military or direct control, but in their cultural impact and expertise. Marcus aurelius (emperor ad 161-180) was also a student of. He also did something unprecedented and never repeated for a roman emperor: he retired and grew cabbages.
