• Table of Contents


• List of contributors


• 1. Cosmopolitan Politics: The Assimilation and Subordination of Elite Cultures


• Myles Lavan, Richard Payne, John Weisweiler


• 2. Getting Confident: The Assyrian Development of Elite Recognition Ethics


• Seth Richardson


• 3. Empire Begins at Home: Local Elites and Imperial Ideologies in Hellenistic Greece and Babylonia


• Kathryn Stevens


• 4. Hellenism, Cosmopolitanism and the Role of Babylonian Elites in the Seleucid Empire


• Johannes Haubold


• 5. Towards a Translocal Elite Culture in the Ptolemaic Empire


• Christelle Fischer-Bovet


• 6. What is Imperial Cosmopolitanism?


• Tamara Chin


• 7. "Father of the Whole Human Race": Ecumenical Language and the Limits of Elite Integration in the Early Roman Empire


• Myles Lavan


• 8. Making Romans: Citizens, Subjects and Subjectivity in Republican Empire


• Clifford Ando


• 9. From Empire to World State: Ecumenical Language and Cosmopolitan Consciousness in the Later Roman Aristocracy


• John Weisweiler


• 10. Iranian Cosmopolitanism: World Religions at the Sasanian Court


• Richard Payne


• 11. "Zum ewigen Frieden": Cosmopolitanism, Comparison and Empire


• Peter Fibiger Bang


• Works cited


• Index

Myles Lavan is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of St. Andrews and author of Slaves to Rome: Paradigms of Empire in Roman Culture.
Richard E. Payne is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor at the Oriental Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and author of A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity.
John Weisweiler is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Tübingen.

Cosmopolitanism and Empire traces the development of cosmopolitan cultural techniques through which ancient empires managed difference in order to establish regimes of domination.