Greece has been the focus of intense archaeological interest over the past half-century, particularly as its landscapes serve as among the earliest laboratories for regional field surveys. In fact Greece becomes one of the most urbanized provinces of the Roman Empire. There is no report that Roman forces were withdrawn from Athens; indeed following the victory at Cynoscephalae the Romans maintained legions in several of the former Macedonian strongholds, such as Corinth and Chalchis. The construction of the Corinthian Forum was likely undertaken at about the same time as the building of the Roman Agora in Athens during the Augustan Period, another large space that was open within the interior. By the time of the end of the Roman Republic the political stage of the ancient world had completed its shift from old Greece to Rome.