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Roman culture was highly influenced by the Greeks as Horace said, Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit ("Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror"). Life in Greece continued under the Roman Empire much the same as it had previously. Moreover, the Greek cities in Asia Minor recovered from the Roman conquest more rapidly than the cities of peninsular Greece, which had been much damaged in the war with Sulla.Īs an empire, Rome invested resources and rebuilt the cities of Roman Greece, and established Corinth as the capital city of the province of Achaea, and Athens prospered as a cultural hub of philosophy, education and learned knowledge. Initially, Rome's conquest of Greece damaged the economy, but it readily recovered under Roman administration in the postwar period. During the Roman civil wars, Greece was physically and economically devastated until Augustus organised the peninsula as the province of Achaea, in 27 BC. In 88 BC, Athens and other Greek city-states revolted against Rome and were suppressed by General Lucius Cornelius Sulla. Meanwhile, southern Greece also came under Roman hegemony, but some key Greek poleis remained partly autonomous and avoided direct Roman taxation. The Greek peninsula fell to the Roman Republic during the Battle of Corinth (146 BC), when Macedonia became a Roman province. The Roman conquest of Ancient Greece in the 2nd century BC Afterwards, the Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, including Roman and Greek culture. The Roman era of Greek history continued with Emperor Constantine the Great's adoption of Byzantium as Nova Roma, the capital city of the Roman Empire in AD 330, the city was renamed Constantinople. The definitive Roman occupation of the Greek world was established after the Battle of Actium (31 BC), in which Augustus defeated Cleopatra VII, the Greek Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, and the Roman general Mark Antony, and afterwards conquered Alexandria (30 BC), the last great city of Hellenistic Greece. The Fourth Macedonian War ended at the Battle of Pydna in 148 BC and defeat of the Macedonian royal pretender Andriscus. 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. The Roman era of Greek history began with the Corinthian defeat in the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC. 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.

The last day on Corinth, Tony Robert-Fleury, 1870 Scene of the Battle of Corinth (146 BC): last day before the Roman legions looted and burned the Greek city of Corinth.