REVISED

Cosmopolitanism
and Empire

Universal Rulers, Local Elites,

and Cultural Integration
in the Ancient Near East
and Mediterranean

E di t e d b y
Myles Lavan, Richard E. Payne, and John Weisweiler
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Contents

Preface vii
Contributors ix

1 Cosmopolitan Politics: The Assimilation and Subordination

of Elite Cultures  1
Myles Lavan, Richard Payne, John Weisweiler

2 Getting Confident: The Assyrian Development of Elite

Recognition Ethics  29
Seth Richardson

3 Empire Begins at Home: Local Elites and Imperial Ideologies

in Hellenistic Greece and Babylonia  65
Kathryn Stevens

4 Hellenism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Role of Babylonian Elites

in the Seleucid Empire  89
Johannes Haubold

5 Toward a Translocal Elite Culture in the Ptolemaic Empire  103

Christelle Fischer-​Bovet

6 What Is Imperial Cosmopolitanism? Revisiting Kosmopolitēs

and Mundanus 129
Tamara T. Chin

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7 “Father of the Whole Human Race”: Ecumenical Language

and the Limits of Elite Integration in the Early Roman Empire  153
Myles Lavan

8 Making Romans: Citizens, Subjects, and Subjectivity

in Republican Empire  169
Clifford Ando

9 From Empire to World-​State: Ecumenical Language

and Cosmopolitan Consciousness in the Later Roman Aristocracy  187
John Weisweiler

10 Iranian Cosmopolitanism: World Religions at the Sasanian Court  209

Richard Payne

11 “Zum Ewigen Frieden”: Cosmopolitanism, Comparison, and Empire  231

Peter Fibiger Bang

Works Cited  239

Index 275

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