The article examines some characteristic features of the Roman patriotism under the Empire, tracing their depen- dence on the specific conditions of a world power (such as the spread of Roman citizenship, involvement of provin- cial elites in state administration, urbanization and Romanization); at the same time, the author deals with the conti- nuity of republican traditions and values, as well as interrelations of Roman patriotism with the processes and forms of cultural identification among ruling classes and intellectual elites of the Roman world. Particular attention is paid to the emergence of dual Graeco-Roman identity, which largely determined the particularity of the Roman imperial pa- triotism.
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