Robin Osborne on Pierre Vesperini, Lucrèce and La philosophie antique. An iconoclastic dismantling of the myth of classical Greek philosophy as precursor to its modern forms
How was Roman imperial rule over Greece legitimated in the minds of conquerors and subjects alike? The mutual reverberations of an Augustan cultural revolution that brought Hellenism to the empire’s core and diverted Greeks to the glories of the past.