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

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.

General

Imprint:	Classical Press of Wales
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2017
Editors:	Andrew Erskine • Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones • Shane Wallace
Dimensions:	270 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	600
ISBN-13:	978-1-910589-62-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Foundations of law > General Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	1-910589-62-4
Barcode:	9781910589625

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