'Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece... Line Girdvainyte (Edinburgh)

‘Other emperors have freed cities, Nero alone an entire province': Nero's liberation of Greece revisited.

**Abstract**
This paper focuses on a well-known yet seldomly discussed episode in the history of Roman Greece – Nero's grant of freedom and tax-immunity to the province of Achaia in 67 CE. Looking at a selection of literary, numismatic, and epigraphic sources – including Nero's liberation speech, inscribed by the Boiotian city of Akraiphiai shortly after its delivery at the Isthmian Games in Corinth – it considers some of the practical implications of this short-lived freedom, and how it fits into the wider context of Rome's policy towards Greece in the early imperial period. 

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