The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great : : Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia / / ed. by Frances Pownall, Sulochana R. Asirvatham, Sabine Müller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Anson, Edward M.,; Baynham, Elizabeth,; Bosman, Philip,; Cooper, Craig,; Frank, Rebecca,; Heckel, Waldemar,; Hijmans, Steven E.,; Müller, Sabine,; Ogden, Daniel,; Pownall, Frances,; Rose, Thomas C.,; Strootman, Rolf,; Thrue Djurslev, Christian,; Trevett, Jeremy,
• HerausgeberIn: Asirvatham, Sulochana R.,; Müller, Sabine,; Pownall, Frances,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 304 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- I The Transformation of Royal Authority: Personal Relationships at the Macedonian Court -- Philip and Alexander and the Nature of Their Personal Kingship -- Storm Clouds over Three Hellenistic Courts: Observations on the Life and Death of Ptolemy Ceraunus -- II The Courts of Philip and Alexander in the Eyes of Contemporary Greeks -- Diplomatic Activity at the Court of Philip II -- Kairos, Mistrust of Tyranny and the Rhetoric of Court in Demosthenes’ Olynthiacs -- The Exile of Demochares of Leuconoe Revisited -- Philip II, Alexander III, and Members of Their Court in Greek Comedy -- III The Influence of Persia and the Ancient Near East on Alexander’s Court -- Bosworth on Alexander and the Iranians Revisited: Alexander’s Marriages to Persian Brides at Susa: A Study of Arrian, Anabasis 7.4.4–8 -- Two Conceptions of Court at Persepolis -- Pothos or Propaganda? Alexander’s Longing to Reach the Ocean and Argead Imperial Ideology -- IV Raising a Prince in the Macedonian Court: Stories of Alexander’s Birth and Education -- The Serpent Sire of Alexander the Great: A Palinode -- Educating Alexander: High Culture in the Argead Court through Ancient Texts -- V Alexander’s Court in Retrospective -- “The Best Man Among the Dead:” Alexander son of Ammon in an Alexandrian Inscription -- Alexander or not? The Problem of Alexander-like Portraits in Roman Art -- Index