Cosmopolitanism and Empire: Universal Rulers, Local Elites, and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean
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- New York Oxford University Press 2016
- Oxford Studies in Early Empires .
List of contributors1. Cosmopolitan Politics: The Assimilation and Subordination of Elite Cultures Myles Lavan, Richard Payne, John Weisweiler2. Getting Confident: The Assyrian Development of Elite Recognition EthicsSeth Richardson3. Empire Begins at Home: Local Elites and Imperial Ideologies in Hellenistic Greece and BabyloniaKathryn Stevens4. Hellenism, Cosmopolitanism and the Role of Babylonian Elites in the Seleucid EmpireJohannes Haubold5. Towards a Translocal Elite Culture in the Ptolemaic EmpireChristelle Fischer-Bovet6. What is Imperial Cosmopolitanism?Tamara Chin7. "Father of the Whole Human Race": Ecumenical Language and the Limits of Elite Integration in the Early Roman EmpireMyles Lavan8. Making Romans: Citizens, Subjects and Subjectivity in Republican EmpireClifford Ando9. From Empire to World State: Ecumenical Language and Cosmopolitan Consciousness in the Later Roman AristocracyJohn Weisweiler10. Iranian Cosmopolitanism: World Religions at the Sasanian CourtRichard Payne11. "Zum ewigen Frieden": Cosmopolitanism, Comparison and EmpirePeter Fibiger BangWorks citedIndex
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