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Zenodo
2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17776967 |
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- This paper re-examines the concept of Greek identity within the ancient world, challenging the conventional image of the self-contained polis as the sole locus of belonging. We argue that extensive mobility—encompassing colonization, trade, warfare, and intellectual exchange—played a pivotal role in shaping a more fluid and expansive understanding of Greekness. Far from being a static construct, Greek identity was continually negotiated and redefined through encounters with diverse peoples and cultures across the Mediterranean and beyond. This dynamic interaction, we contend, fostered early forms of human universalism, particularly evident in the philosophical articulation of the Hellenistic period. By analyzing primary historical and philosophical texts, this study traces the evolution of these ideas, demonstrating how the "cosmopolitan polis" emerged not as a geographical entity, but as a conceptual space where the boundaries of ethnic and civic identity began to dissolve, laying foundational groundwork for later universalist thought. We explore how experiences of diaspora, foreign service, and intellectual travel broadened perspectives, allowing for the conceptualization of a shared humanity that transcended localized loyalties, culminating in the Stoic ideal of the cosmopolis.