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The
Hellenistic Court
Ediited by
Andrew Erskine,
LLoyd Llewellyn-Jones and Shane Wallace
ISBN
9781910589625, Hardback
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
The contributors:
Sheila Ager
Kostas Buraselis
Livia Capponi
Paola Ceccarelli
David Engels
Oleg Gabelko
Eric Gruen
Craig Hardiman
Alex McAuley
Peter Franz Mittag
Janett Morgan
Olga Palagia
Ivana Petrovic
Ivana Savalli-Lestrade
Rolf Strootman
Dorothy Thompson
Shane Wallace
Stephanie Winde