摘要
古希腊“人居世界”术语最初指代人们居住之地,及至公元前6世纪,借助神话—史诗叙事具象化为被大洋环绕的中心对称型岛状大陆。随着希腊殖民扩张和地中海世界文明交流互鉴的展开,实证地理学开始挑战传统图景,希罗多德更是借助东方地理知识将“人居世界”转化为政治治理空间。亚历山大东征标志着“人居世界”观念的帝国化转折,将此概念彻底重塑为一种服务于帝国统治的权力疆域观。此种认知范式不仅深刻形塑后世罗马帝国和基督教欧洲理解世界的方式,还奠定西方世界“帝国”想象的基本逻辑。
The ancient Greek concept of oikoumene initially referred to the inhabited world.By the 6th century BCE,drawing from mytho-epic narratives,this concept was envisioned as a centrally symmetrical,island-like continent encircled by the Oceanus.As Greek colonial expansion and intercultural exchange throughout the Mediterranean world intensified,empirical geography began to challenge this traditional depiction.Herodotus,drawing on Eastern geographical knowledge,reconceptualized the oikoumene as a space for political governance.The conquests of Alexander the Great marked a pivotal imperial turn in the concept's evolution,as he fundamentally reshaped the concept into a territorial idea serving imperial rule.This cognitive paradigm not only profoundly shaped the worldviews of the later Roman Empire and Christian Europe but also established the foundational logic for the Western imagination of"empire".
出处
《历史研究》
北大核心
2025年第8期91-113,M0006,共24页
Historical Research
基金
国家社科基金青年项目“公元前三世纪至公元—世纪罗马的世界统治观念研究”(24CSS004)阶段性成果。
