Book contents
- Universal Empire
- Universal Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Notes on the contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 ‘Elephant of India’: universal empire through time and across cultures
- Part I Eurasia – antiquity till early modernity
- Chapter 2 Propaganda and practice in Assyrian and Persian imperial culture
- Chapter 3 Between Aśoka and Antiochos: an essay in world history on universal kingship and cosmopolitan culture in the Hellenistic ecumene
- Chapter 4 The making of Oriental Rome: shaping the Trojan legend
- Chapter 5 Pseudo-Aristotelian politics and theology in universal Islam
- Chapter 6 The Christian imperial tradition – Greek and Latin
- Chapter 7 Khan, caliph, tsar and imperator: the multiple identities of the Ottoman sultan
- Chapter 8 How the Mughal pādshāhs referenced Iran in their visual construction of universal rule
- Chapter 9 Ideologies of state building in Vijayanagara and post-Vijayanagara south India: some reflections
- Chapter 10 Sons of Heaven: the Qing appropriation of the Chinese model of universal empire
- Part II Contrasting universalisms – old and new world
- General bibliography
- Index
Chapter 4 - The making of Oriental Rome: shaping the Trojan legend
from Part I - Eurasia – antiquity till early modernity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Universal Empire
- Universal Empire
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Notes on the contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 ‘Elephant of India’: universal empire through time and across cultures
- Part I Eurasia – antiquity till early modernity
- Chapter 2 Propaganda and practice in Assyrian and Persian imperial culture
- Chapter 3 Between Aśoka and Antiochos: an essay in world history on universal kingship and cosmopolitan culture in the Hellenistic ecumene
- Chapter 4 The making of Oriental Rome: shaping the Trojan legend
- Chapter 5 Pseudo-Aristotelian politics and theology in universal Islam
- Chapter 6 The Christian imperial tradition – Greek and Latin
- Chapter 7 Khan, caliph, tsar and imperator: the multiple identities of the Ottoman sultan
- Chapter 8 How the Mughal pādshāhs referenced Iran in their visual construction of universal rule
- Chapter 9 Ideologies of state building in Vijayanagara and post-Vijayanagara south India: some reflections
- Chapter 10 Sons of Heaven: the Qing appropriation of the Chinese model of universal empire
- Part II Contrasting universalisms – old and new world
- General bibliography
- Index
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- Universal EmpireA Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History, pp. 76 - 129Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012