Private Associations between Rome and the Greek Cities June 13, 2007
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The role of private associations in the gradual integration of Greek cities into the Roman empire will be discussed with a focus on the associations of Roman traders and businessmen, who were active in Greece from the third century BC onwards.
By the imperial period these associations seem to have penetrated civic life deeply, both at a social and a political level, and associations of Roman traders played an important function as a trait d’union between the cities and the imperial centre.
Closely associated with these were local occupational associations. While they were primarily oriented towards the city and civic life, they were nevertheless involved in imperial rituals and the imperial cult. As such they were an important factor in the dissemination of the imperial ideology among the working population of the Greek provinces.
Univ.Prof. Dr. Onno van Nijf, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Hörsaal 21 des Hauptgebäudes der Universität Wien
Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria
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