Être citoyen romain dans le monde grec au IIe siècle de notre ère

In the Greek provinces of the Roman empire, the spread of the Roman citizenship introduced into the heart of the cities new onomastic practices, a new right, a new form of social distinction which doesn’t depend on local norms, but relates to universal ones. This book, resulting from a conference held in April 2018, aims to explore the consequences of this unprecedented situation in the ancient world, focusing on the second century - after several decades of slow diffusion of the Roman citizenship, but before the break constituted by the decision of the emperor Carcacalla, in 212, to give this status to all the free inhabitants of the Empire. During this period, considered as the golden age of the Roman empire, the elites of the cities constituted a socially homogeneous group, but legally heterogeneous. Based on case studies of cities in Asia Minor, enhanced by parallels in mainland Greece, the authors try to determine who are the Roman citizens in these Greek communities, but also to study the impact of the development of this new personal status on the local societies, various by their sizes, by their statutes, and even by the political and cultural choices which allow them to preserve an identity within the vast Roman world.