Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title The Hellenistic court : monarchic power and elite society from Alexander to Cleopatra / edited by Andrew Erskine, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Shane Wallace
Published Swansea : Classical Press of Wales, The, 2017

Copies

Description 1 online resource (473 pages)
Contents Part I : Development -- Court, kingship and royal style in the early Hellenistic Period -- At home with royalty: re-viewing the Hellenistic palace -- The Seleucid and Achaemenid court: continuity or change?
880-01 Part III : Marriage -- Symbol and ceremony: royal weddings in the Hellenistic Age -- Once a Seleucid, always a Seleucid: Seleucid princesses and their nuptial courts
880-01/(S Part II : Life at court -- ΒΙΟΣ ΑΥΛΙΚΟΣ: the multiple ways of life of courtiers in the Hellenistic Age -- Eunuchs, renegades and concubines: the 'paradox of power' and the promotion of favourites in the Hellenistic empires -- Callimachus, Theocritus and Ptolemaic court etiquette
Part IV : Beyond the palace -- In the mirror of Hetairai. Tracing aspects of the interaction between polis life and court life in the early Hellenistic Age. -- Image and communication in the Seleucid kingdom: the king, the court and the cities -- Outside the capital: the Ptolemaic court and its courtiers -- 'Court-ing the public': the Attalid court and domestic display
Part V : Crossing cultures -- Hellenistic court patronage and the non-Greek world -- Bithynia and Cappadocia: royal courts and ruling society in the minor Hellenistic monarchies -- Deserving the court's trust: jews in Ptolemaic Egypt
Part VI : Disloyalty and death -- Misconduct and disloyalty in the Seleucid court -- The hands of Gods? Poison in the Hellenistic court -- The royal court in Ancient Macedonia: the evidence for royal tombs
Summary Hellenistic courts were centres of monarchic power, social prestige and high culture in the kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander. They were places of refinement, learning and luxury, and also of corruption, rivalry and murder. Surrounded by courtiers of varying loyalty, Hellenistic royal families played roles in a theatre of spectacle and ceremony. Architecture, art, ritual and scholarship were deployed to defend the existence of their dynasties. The present volume, from a team of international experts, examines royal methods and ideologies. It treats the courts of the Ptolemies, Seleucids, Attalids, Antigonids and of lesser dynasties. It also explores the influence, on Greek-speaking courts, of non- Greek culture, of Achaemenid and other Near Eastern royal institutions. It studies the careers of courtesans, concubines and 'friends' of royalty, and the intellectual, ceremonial, and artistic world of the Greek monarchies. The work demonstrates the complexity and motivations of Hellenistic royal civilisation, of courts which governed the transmission of Greek culture to the wider Mediterranean world - and to later ages
Notes Print version record
Subject Monarchy -- Greece
Courts and courtiers.
courts (social groups)
courtiers.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
Courts and courtiers
Monarchy
Politics and government
SUBJECT Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057114
Subject Greece
Form Electronic book
Author Erskine, Andrew, editor.
Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd, editor.
Wallace, Shane, 1982- editor.
ISBN 9781910589670
1910589675