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Article: Being Greek Under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic, and the Development of Empire
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- Trinity Journal
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- October 1, 2003
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Simon Goldhill, ed. Being Greek Under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic, and the Development of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. via + 395 pp. $70.00.
The authors of the nine essays of this volume, the majority of whom worked at King's College in Cambridge, England, in the 1980s and 1990s, explore the question of how Greek identity was shaped and influenced by the realities of the Roman Empire from the first to the third centuries A.D. Many of the questions raised by these essays are of intrinsic value for the historian of the early church which grew and expanded precisely during this period.
Part one ("Subjected to Empire") contains three essays. J. ...