TY - BOOK AU - LAVAN, Myles AU - PAYNE, Richard E. AU - WEISWEILER, John TI - Cosmopolitanism and Empire: Universal Rulers, Local Elites, and Cultural Integration in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean SN - 9780000000000 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Citizenship--History, Ancient KW - Cosmopolitanism--Asia--History KW - Cosmopolitanism--History KW - Ethnicity--Citizenship N1 - 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 ER -