Rome, the Greek World, and the East, Vol. 1 - The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution

 The Augustan Revolution

raconensistoimploreAugustusforaid,whichhegranted.^96 About..,
when the Senate made a treaty with Mytilene, an embassy, including the
poetCrinagoras,mayperhapsalsohavegonetoSpaintoAugustus.^97 Thenin
..,orjustbefore,cametheembassiesfromtheJewsofAsiaandCyrene,
mentionedearlier(textton.),andperhapsinthesameyearcameanem-
bassy from Eresos on Lesbos, possibly to offerconsolation on the death of
Agrippa;^98 andin–..theembassiesfromCyrene(textton.).In..
twoambassadorscamefromthefreecityofCnidustoaccuseaman(already
deceased)andhiswifeofthemurderofanothercitizenoftheplace.Augus-
tussaysinhislettertothecitythatheorderedhis‘‘friend’’AsiniusGallus(the
proconsulofAsia)tomakeaninvestigationandthenheardthecasehimself.^99
In..therewasanembassyfromSardis(textton.).Atunknowndates
in the reign embassies came from Athens to secure funds for the comple-
tionoftheAgoraofCaesarandAugustus,^100 fromTegea,^101 and(atsomedate
betweenand..)fromMytilenetobothAugustusandtheSenate.^102
Inthesamereigntheimperialprovincesproduceevidenceofembassies
totheEmperoronlyfromJudaea—separatelyfromtheJewsandtheGreek
cities^103 —afterthedeathofHerodin..,fromAlexandriain..,^104 and
fromTarraco.^105 Acompilationoftheevidenceforembassiesinlaterreigns
wouldshowasimilardisparity,thoughnotsomarked.^106

. Agathias,;Euseb;Chron.,–Schoene;Strabo.Cf.G.W.Bowersock,
Augustus and the Greek World(),and.
.IGRIV,EhrenbergandJones,no..SeeC.A.Cichorius,Rom und Mytilene
(),;Bowersock(n.),.ThenotionofanembassytoSpaindependsontheview
thatthephrase‘‘inTarraco,Iberia’’inIGRIV,,l.,referstosuchanoccasion.Butcf.IV,
,.whereTarracoismentionedinaquitedifferentcontext.
.IGRIV,.
.Syll.^3 AbbottandJohnson,no.(thereisnoreferencetoappealinthecase,
as stated there)  Ehrenberg and Jones, no. . R. K. Sherk, ‘‘C. Asinius Gallus and His
GovernorshipofAsia,’’GRBS():,argues(notquiteconvincingly)thatGalluswas
atthetimemerely‘‘afriendoftheprinceps’’ (amicus principis)inRome,andnotproconsul
untilthefollowingyear.
.IG^2 II–III,.SeeBowersock(n.),.
.IGV, , .
.IGRIV,.
. TheJewishpeople,Jos.,Bell.Jud.,;Ant.Jud.,;theGreekcities,Nic.Dam.,
FGrH,F().
.P.Oxy.verso.
. Quint.,Inst.,,.
. Irelyhereonapreliminarycollectionoftheevidence,whichcouldnotbepub-