Recent scholarship has recognized that Philip II and Alexander the Great adopted elements of their self-fashioning and court ceremonial from previous empires in the Ancient Near East, but it is generally assumed that the advent of the Macedonian court as a locus of politics and culture occurred only in the post-Alexander landscape of the Hellenistic Successors. This volume of ground-breaking essays by leading scholars on Ancient Macedonia goes beyond existing research questions to assess the profound impact of Philip and Alexander on court culture throughout the ages. The papers in this volume offer a thematic approach, focusing upon key institutional, cultural, social, ideological, and iconographical aspects of the reigns of Philip and Alexander. The authors treat the Macedonian court not only as a historical reality, but also as an object of fascination to contemporary Greeks that ultimately became a topos in later reflections on the lives and careers of Philip and Alexander. This collection of papers provides a paradigm-shifting recognition of the seminal roles of Philip and Alexander in the emergence of a new kind of Macedonian kingship and court culture that was spectacularly successful and transformative.

This book is concerned with a central question in contemporary legal theory: how to describe global law? In addressing this question, the book brings together two features that are different and yet connected to one another: the conceptual description of contemporary law on the one hand, and methods of taking concrete perspectives on law on the other hand.

The book provides a useful concept for describing global law: thinking of law spatially. It illustrates that space is a concept with the capacity to capture the relationality, dynamics, and hybridity of law. Moreover, this book investigates the role of topological thinking in finding concrete perspectives on law.

Legal Spaces offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to law.

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Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality addresses the manifold, even global artistic developments that were initiated by European Romantics. In the first section, the contributors show how the rising perspective of intermediality was discussed in philosophical terms and adapted itself to Romantic literature and music. In the second section, the contributors show how post-Romantic writers, visual artists, and composers have engaged with Romantic heritage. By exploring primary works that range from European arts to Latin American literature, these essays focus on the interdisciplinary developments that have emerged in literature, music, painting, film, architecture, and video art. Overall, the contributions in this volume demonstrate that intermedial connections-or sometimes the conscious lack of such connections-embody intriguing aspects of modernity and postmodernity.

This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title; role in succession; the situation of mothers, wives, and daughters of kings; regnant and co-regnant women; role in cult and in dynastic image; and examines a sampling of the careers of individual women while placing them within broader contexts. Written by an international group of experts, this collection is based on the assumption that women played a fundamental role in ancient monarchy, that they were part of, not apart from it, and that it is necessary to understand their role to understand ancient monarchies. This is a crucial resource for anyone interested in the role of women in antiquity.

The Hellenistic monarchies arose from the collapse of Alexandera (TM)s empire, and represented new forms of rule. This study demonstrates how the Hellenistic ruler presented himself and his family in picture, text and on official occasions. In particular the representation of the Hellenistic royal couple and the role of the queen at court are examined on the basis of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Central aspects of the study are the political background to the marriage between Ptolemy II, during his reign that marriage between royal siblings and the deification of the ruling royal couple were introduces, and his sister ArsinoA II, and how the royal couple presented themselves to Greeks, Macedonians, and Egyptians.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2000 im Fachbereich Sozialpadagogik / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,0, Alice-Salomon Hochschule Berlin (unbekannt), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Die Idee zu dieser Thematik entstand wahrend meines Praktikums im 5. Semester, als ich die systemischen und losungsorientierten Ansatze kennenlernte. Beide interessierten mich sehr, da ich durch deren erste Anwendung bei meiner Arbeit als Familienhelferin die Vorteile spuren konnte. Bei naherem Literaturstudium stand ich einer Vielfalt an Begriffen, therapeutischen Richtungen und deren Vorentwicklungen sowie Namen gegenuber, die ich nachfolgend in der zeitlichen Reihenfolge ihrer Entstehung darstellen und systematisieren werde. Mein Ziel ist es, einen umfassenden Uberblick uber die Entwicklung der verschiedenen familientherapeutischen Richtungen, einschliesslich der system- und kommunikationstheoretischen Grundlagen zu geben und diese zu bewerten. Bei den Modellen stelle ich die mir fur die Erfullung des o.g. Anspruchs am relevantesten erschienenen und gegenwartig oder in der Vergangenheit mit besonders grossem Erfolg praktizierten Richtungen vor. Daruber hinaus habe ich die Notwendigkeit, bestimmte aufeinander aufbauende Sachverhalte im Zusammenhang darzustellen, und somit das Interesse des Lesers berucksichtigt. Dem an der Thematik Interessierten soll durch diese Arbeit die Einarbeitung vereinfacht und eine Konzentration auf die akuelle Diskussion, sowie die gegenwartig praktizierten Therapieinhalte ermoglicht werden. Gang der Untersuchung: Ich beginne mit der Psychoanalyse, bei deren Abgrenzung zum systemischen Ansatz ich gleichzeitig beider Grundzuge darstelle. Ich stelle diese Entwicklung dar, da deren Vertreter und die damals gepragten Begriffe noch heute haufig in der Literatur erwahnt werden, der jetzige Stand der Entwicklung erst mit dem geschichtlichen Hintergrund verstandlich wird und ohne sie nicht denkbar ware. Anschliessend beschreibe ich verschiedene Richtungen