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The Hellenistic court : monarchic power and elite society from Alexander to Cleopatra /
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 roy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Swansea :
Classical Press of Wales, The,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?
- Part III : Marriage
- Symbol and ceremony: royal weddings in the Hellenistic Age
- Once a Seleucid, always a Seleucid: Seleucid princesses and their nuptial courts.
- 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.