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Document Details : Title: Agents of Loyalism in the Early Roman Empire Subtitle: The Case of C. Iulii and Tib. Claudii in the Province of Asia Author(s): BLANCO-PÉREZ, Aitor Journal: Anatolica Volume: 48 Date: 2022 Pages: 175-188 DOI: 10.2143/ANA.48.0.3291918 Abstract : This paper studies the civic agency of new Roman citizens from Asia between the middle of the first century BC and the beginning of the first century AD, analysing whether this privileged group actively contributed to the acceptance of imperial motifs in their places of origin. I argue that these free-born enfranchised Greeks, as full and liturgy-paying members of their poleis following Augustus’ orders (e.g. ‘Edicts of Cyrene’), were key to the consolidation of loyalty relations, cults, titles (e.g. φιλόκαισαρ/philocaesar) and habits which became prevalent in the epigraphic evidence of local political communities of the Eastern Mediterranean subject to Roman rule. |
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