Cosmopolis: imagining community in late classical Athens and the early Roman Empire

This book examines the ways in which various intellectuals in the post-classical Mediterranean imagined the human community as a unified, homogenous whole composed of a diversity of parts. More specifically, it explores how authors of the second century CE adopted and adapted a particular ethnic and cultural discourse that had been elaborated by late fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athenian intellectuals. INDICE: Introduction; Chapter One: Nature, Culture, and the Boundaries of the Human Community; Chapter Two: After Ethnicity: Zeno as Citizen; Chapter Three: The Rhetoric of Unity; Chapter Four: 'A Pure World of Signs': Language and Empire; Chapter Five: The Origins of Human Wisdom; Chapter Six: The Unity ofthe Divine; Conclusion; Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-977268-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés