Ancient Greece

===Roman Greece===
{{Main|Greece in the Roman era}}
{{Further|Byzantine Greece}}

The Greek peninsula came under Roman rule during the 146 BC conquest of [[Greece]] after the Battle of Corinth. [[Macedonia (Roman province)|Macedonia]] became a [[Roman province]] while southern Greece came under the surveillance of Macedonia's [[prefect]]; however, some Greek ''poleis'' managed to maintain a partial independence and avoid taxation. The [[Aegean Islands]] were added to this territory in 133 BC. [[Athens]] and other Greek cities revolted in 88 BC, and the peninsula was crushed by the Roman general [[Lucius Cornelius Sulla|Sulla]]. The Roman civil wars devastated the land even further, until [[Caesar Augustus|Augustus]] organized the peninsula as the province of [[Achaea (province)|Achaea]] in 27 BC.

Greece was a key eastern province of the Roman Empire, as the [[Roman culture]] had long been in fact [[Greco-Roman world|Greco-Roman]]. The [[Koine Greek|Greek language]] served as a ''[[lingua franca]]'' in the East and in [[Italia (Roman province)|Italy]], and many Greek intellectuals such as [[Galen]] would perform most of their work in [[Rome]].