The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great : : Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 304 p.)
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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

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