Province, 117 CE

Achaia

Senatorial province (proconsul)Capital: Corinth

Roman Greece — the old heartland of Classical civilization, ruled since 27 BCE from a city the Romans themselves had rebuilt: Corinth, razed by the Republic in 146 BCE and refounded as a colony a century later. Athens kept a special cultural prestige no governor's seat could match; Epirus in the northwest and the Aegean islands both fell under this same province's administration.

Cities on the map

Corinth — Provincial capital of Achaea, re-founded by Caesar over the ruins of the Greek city Rome had destroyed a century earlier.
Athens — Under Rome but coasting on its glorious past. Hadrian would soon add his Library, arch, and Olympieion.
Delphi — Sanctuary of Apollo — still a working oracle in 117 CE, though its reputation was fading.

31 places on the map

Sources

Pausanias, Description of Greece
Cassius Dio, Roman History 51.4

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