Dio, Rome, and the Civic Life of Asia Minor

Abstract

Abstract The title of a recent study by Greg Woolf, Becoming Roman, Staying Greek,1 eschewing as it does so outworn a term as ‘Romanization’, may be taken as fairly representative of the approach—showing particular sensitivity to the aspect of ‘mentality’—that now seems to be prevailing in studies on the impact that Roman power had on the Greek world from the century of conquest to the third century AD. Nevertheless, Woolf’s statement that ‘Greeks felt themselves to be Greeks, in a sense that was not wholly compatible with being Roman, while at the same time adopting much Roman material culture’4 does not, altogether, go much further than the conclusions of previous research which limited Roman influence on the Greek world to the adoption of gladiatorial games and certain types of buildings like the bath-gymnasium complexes. Nor does it seem to give much weight to the significant changes that centuries of Roman control, in areas such as Asia Minor, eventually brought about in the conduct of city politics and in the making and advancement of the ruling class.

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