(2015) A Tale of Two Cretan Cities: The Building of Roman Kissamos and the Persistence of Polyrrhenia in the Wake of Shifting Identities. (original) (raw)

The coming of Rome was the most significant turning point in the history of Crete since the destruction of the Minoan palaces. It not only meant the subjugation of Crete under foreign rule -for the first time since the coming of the Mycenean Greeks; it not only meant the establishment of a political government. It also meant the extinction of a social and political order that had existed for almost a millen-nium……Crete was now an island not on the periphery of the Aegean, a sea troubled by wars and raids, but an island in the middle of a pacified Eastern Mediterranean, entirely integrated into the Roman system of rule and the economic networks of the Roman Empire.