Rome the Cosmopolis

Rome the Cosmopolis
Author: Catharine Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521030113

A collection of essays exploring key aspects of the relationship between Rome and its empire.

Cosmopolis

Cosmopolis
Author: Don DeLillo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2003
Genre: Foreign exchange market
ISBN: 0743244249

Eric Packer, a young billionaire asset manager, journeys across New York in his limousine despite a threat against his life, and the occurances of various events that are stalling traffic throughout the city.

Rome, Empire of Plunder

Rome, Empire of Plunder
Author: Matthew Loar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108418422

An interdisciplinary exploration of Roman cultural appropriation, offering new insights into the processes through which Rome made and remade itself.

Being Greek Under Rome

Being Greek Under Rome
Author: Simon Goldhill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521030878

This book explores the cultural conflicts of the second-century CE Roman Empire, through the perspective of Greek writings. The specially commissioned essays investigate the intellectual and social tensions in the era which gave rise to Christianity.

Cosmopolis — Complete

Cosmopolis — Complete
Author: Paul Bourget
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2019-11-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Cosmopolis — Complete is a novel by French author Paul Bourget, known for his psychological and social exploration in his works. In Cosmopolis, Bourget delves into the complexities of human relationships and the cultural intricacies of an interconnected world. His keen observations and nuanced storytelling make this work an engaging and thought-provoking read.

Rome

Rome
Author: Greg Woolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190687452

First edition published by Oxford University, 2012.

Cosmopolis

Cosmopolis
Author: Stephen Toulmin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1992-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226808383

In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fitted into precise and manageable rational categories. Stephen Toulmin confronts that agenda—its illusions and its consequences for our present and future world. "By showing how different the last three centuries would have been if Montaigne, rather than Descartes, had been taken as a starting point, Toulmin helps destroy the illusion that the Cartesian quest for certainty is intrinsic to the nature of science or philosophy."—Richard M. Rorty, University of Virginia "[Toulmin] has now tackled perhaps his most ambitious theme of all. . . . His aim is nothing less than to lay before us an account of both the origins and the prospects of our distinctively modern world. By charting the evolution of modernity, he hopes to show us what intellectual posture we ought to adopt as we confront the coming millennium."—Quentin Skinner, New York Review of Books

A Companion to the City of Rome

A Companion to the City of Rome
Author: Claire Holleran
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 804
Release: 2018-09-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1405198192

A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its origins until circa AD 600. Offers a unique interdisciplinary, closely focused thematic approach and wide chronological scope making it an indispensible reference work on ancient Rome Includes several new developments on areas of research that are available in English for the first time Newly commissioned essays written by experts in a variety of related fields Original and up-to-date readings pertaining to the city of Rome on a wide variety of topics including Rome’s urban landscape, population, economy, civic life, and key events

Cosmopolis

Cosmopolis
Author: Daniel S. Richter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199773203

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 oikoumenê . 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 oikoumenê 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.