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The Hellenistic Court - Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra (Hardcover)
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The Hellenistic Court - Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra (Hardcover)
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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.
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