The aim of my research project is to focus on the changes in Greek political culture when Greeks lost their independence from the time of Augustus onwards. The book I plan to devote to the problem will use the evidence of the speeches of the orators and the inscriptions together in order to reassess both Greek political mentalities and Greek political practice in the Imperial period. The book will address five main issues, each of them analyzing one special aspect of the political relationship between Greek cities and Roman power: provincialization and the acceptance of Roman control; Greek political thought under Roman imperial rule; language contacts in the Greek-speaking provinces; Greek collective identities in the Roman Imperial period; and Greek self-government and imperial authoritarianism in the 3rd century AD. The study of the long-term evolution of Greek political culture from the 2nd century BC to the 3rd century AD in relation to the rise of Roman rule is meant to be a contribution to our understanding of the future of the typically Greek pattern of the polis in the postclassical period.