Cosmopolis : imagining community in late classical Athens and the early Roman Empire / Daniel S. Richter.

Author/creator Richter, Daniel S.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionix, 278 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Community life--Mediterranean Region. --History. --To 1500.
Cultural pluralism--Mediterranean Region. --History. --To 1500.
Mediterranean Region--Intellectual life.
Rome--Intellectual life.
Mediterranean Region--Ethnic relations.
Rome--Ethnic relations.
Mediterranean Region--Social conditions.
Rome--Social conditions. --510-30 B.C.
Athens (Greece)--Intellectual life.
Greece--Intellectual life. --146 B.C.-323 A.D.

Contents Nature, culture, and the boundaries of the human community -- After ethnicity : Zeno as citizen -- The rhetoric of unity -- "A pure world of signs" : language and empire -- The origins of human wisdom -- The unity of the divine.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010029627
ISBN9780199772681 (alk. paper)
ISBN0199772681 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks DE71 .R53 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold