Book contents
- Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
- Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Maps
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology of the Ancient Mediterranean
- Chronology of Ancient China
- Maps of Ancient China, Greece, and Rome
- The Many Faces of “the People” in the Ancient World
- Part I Authority and Lifestyles of Distinction
- Chapter 1 Of Gold and Purple: Nobles in Western Han China and Republican Rome
- Chapter 2 A Tale of Two Stones
- Chapter 3 Private Associations and Urban Experience in the Han and Roman Empires
- Part II The People as Agents and Addressees
- Part III Inversions of the People: Emperors and Tyrants
- Part IV Identities and “Others”
- Glossary
- Index
- References
Chapter 3 - Private Associations and Urban Experience in the Han and Roman Empires
from Part I - Authority and Lifestyles of Distinction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2021
Book contents
- Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
- Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Maps
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology of the Ancient Mediterranean
- Chronology of Ancient China
- Maps of Ancient China, Greece, and Rome
- The Many Faces of “the People” in the Ancient World
- Part I Authority and Lifestyles of Distinction
- Chapter 1 Of Gold and Purple: Nobles in Western Han China and Republican Rome
- Chapter 2 A Tale of Two Stones
- Chapter 3 Private Associations and Urban Experience in the Han and Roman Empires
- Part II The People as Agents and Addressees
- Part III Inversions of the People: Emperors and Tyrants
- Part IV Identities and “Others”
- Glossary
- Index
- References
Summary
For most subjects of large, premodern empires, the twin poles of identity and belonging were the family or household at one end, and the imperial system as a whole at the other. Between these two poles there could be several overlapping or nested structures of identity and belonging, of which the locality, often a city or smaller nucleated settlement, was usually the most salient. As a result, when we consider the lived experience of premodern imperial subjects, we tend to think of the household, the city, and the empire (and perhaps the cosmos) as the operative categories within which such individuals lived their daily lives and conceived the world. But in some political systems there existed another level, located between the family and the city, where individual subjects could lead meaningful lives. This is the level of suprafamilial, but submunicipal, groups, associations, corporations, and collectivities of all sorts, inhabited, typically, by what we might call the “middle stratum” of premodern urban societies.
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