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Cosmopolis - Imagining Community in Late Classical Athens and the Early Roman Empire (Hardcover, New)
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Cosmopolis - Imagining Community in Late Classical Athens and the Early Roman Empire (Hardcover, New)
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This is a book about 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. At the center of this book is a series of contests
over the meaning of lineage and descent and the extent to which the
political community is or ought to be coterminous with what we
might call a biologically homogenous collectivity. The study
suggests that early imperial intellectuals found in late classical
and early Hellenistic thought a way of accommodating the claims of
both ethnicity and culture in a single discourse of communal
identity. The idea of the unity of humankind evolved in the fifth
and fourth centuries as a response to and an engine for the
creation of a rapidly shrinking and increasingly integrated
oikoumene . The increased presence of outsiders in the classical
city-state as well as the creation of sources of authority that lay
outside of the polis destabilized the idea of the polis as a kin
group (natio). Beginning in the early fourth century and gaining
great momentum in the wake of Alexander's conquest of the East,
traditional dichotomies such as Greek and barbarian lost much of
their explanatory power. In the second-century CE, by contrast, the
empire of the Romans imposed a political space that was imagined by
many to be coterminous with the oikoumene itself. One of the
central claims of this study is that the forms of cosmopolitan and
ecumenical thought that emerged in both moments did so as responses
to the idea that the natio - the kin group - is (or ought to be)
the basis for any human collectivity."
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