Corinto, 28 novembre 67 d. C.: Nerone concede la libertà ai Greci.
Articolo di Felice di Maro
Abstract
It has not yet been proven whether Nero burned Rome. Nero who loved art and sport, yes. The epigraph found on the left wall of the little church of Saint-Georges in Karditsa, the ancient Acrefie in Boeotia, by Maurice Holleaux at the end of the 19th century, documents that Nero on November 28 of the year 67 granted freedom to the Greeks and tax exemption.
Was the
elimination of the Greek provincial government a priority? The question has
been much investigated by scholars, but perhaps it was a consequence, not a
goal.
A
hypothesis is presented, the result of a research that Nero had devised his own
political project to better govern the Empire and that he believed that Greece,
due to its culture and its institutional traditions of management of the polis,
could be the basis on where East and West, who faced each other in constant
arms, could coexist peacefully.
The damnatio
memoriae was very hard for Nero and erased his name from the statues and
epigraphs, and unfortunately today we do not have a statue-portrait of the time
without modifications, but there are some works that document his iconography
and which were also vehicles of representation of the Empire and also to show
the major coordinates of his political project in the feasts and ceremonies for
his cult.
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In Grecia, sul muro di sinistra della piccola chiesa di Saint-Georges a Karditsa, l’antica Acrefie della Beozia, località che oggi è una unità periferica che dal 2011 è parte del comune di Orcomeno, Maurice Holleaux, alla fine dell’Ottocento rinvenne un’epigrafe1, fig.1, conservata presso il museo di Tebe che presenta il testo del discorso di Nerone pronunciato a Corinto il 28 novembre del 67 d. Cristo. Con
