Abstract

MORENO LEONI, Álvaro M.. Pausanias, Greek Freedom and History of the Hellenistic Achaean Confederacy: Greek Memory and Identity in the Roman Empire. Nova tellus [online]. 2014, vol.32, n.1, pp.45-79. ISSN 0185-3058.

The aim of this article is to analyze the concept of Greek freedom in the Periegesis of Pausanias we will do so by assessing the importance of the history of the Hellenistic Achaean Confederacy proposed by this writer during the 2nd century BC in order to understand the definition of his cultural and ideological project in an attempt to rescue of the memory under Roman dominion.

Keywords : Pausanias; freedom; Achaean history; memory; Panhellenism.