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Record Nr.

UNISA996207186603316

Autore

Richter Daniel S

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-045419-9

9786613057730

0-19-977320-3

1-283-05773-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Disciplina

937/.07

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This is a text 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.