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The Hellenistic Court

Engelsk Hardback

The Hellenistic Court

Engelsk Hardback

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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 age.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
441
ISBN-13:
9781910589625
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1910589624
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Udg. Dato:
18 dec 2017
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
167mm
Forlag:
Classical Press of Wales
Oplagsdato:
18 dec 2017
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