10 Facts About Roman Greece

Greece in the Roman era describes the Roman conquest of Greece, as well as the period of Greek history when Greece was dominated first by the Roman Republic and then by the Roman Empire.

However, before the Achaean War, the Roman Republic had been steadily gaining control of mainland Greece by defeating the Kingdom of Macedon in a series of conflicts known as the Macedonian Wars.

Some Roman Greece nobles regarded the Greeks as backwards and petty, but many others embraced Greek literature and philosophy.

Roman Greece was honoured with a victory in every contest, and in the following year, he proclaimed the freedom of the Greeks at the Isthmian Games in Corinth, just as Flamininus had over 200 years previously.

Roman Greece saw himself as an heir to Pericles and made many contributions to Athens.

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Roman Greece built the Library of Hadrian in the city and completed the construction of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, some 638 years after its construction had been started by Athenian tyrants but ended because of the belief that building on such a scale would cause hubris.

Pax Romana was the longest period of peace in Greek history, and Greece became a major crossroads of maritime trade between Rome and the Greek speaking eastern half of the empire.

The apostle Paul of Tarsus preached in Philippi, Corinth and Athens, and Roman Greece soon became one of the most highly Christianized areas of the empire.

Under Constantine Roman Greece was part of the prefectures of Macedonia and Thrace.

Contemporary texts such as Hierocles' Syndekmos affirm that late antiquity Roman Greece was highly urbanised and contained approximately eighty cities.