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Chargement... The Hellenistic court : monarchic power and elite society from Alexander to Cleopatrapar Andrew Erskine (Directeur de publication), Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Directeur de publication), Shane Wallace (Directeur de publication)
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As the editors note, “there was a time when all ‘proper’ historians turned their critical and quizzical eyes to kings and courts” (p. xv). The Hellenistic Court rigorously challenges this view. After a survey of pivotal studies on the function and structure of court systems in Tudor England, Bourbon France, and the Persian Empire, they define the Hellenistic court as ” a circle of elite people and attendants in orbit around the monarch as well as being a larger environment of political, military, economic and cultural structures which converged within the monarch’s household” (p.xxi). It was a movable space where the central and the local Empire encountered each other. The chapters engage with this theme while expanding on the Hellenistic world’s vastness and diversity. The eighteen papers offer a broad, diverse and yet consistent overview. They address a selection of critical overarching aspects, i.e., origin and development of the court, its functioning, courtiers’ loyalty to the king and the dangers of the court life, the wedding symbols and ceremony, the court interactions with the institutions beyond the Palace, and those with non-Greek cultures. Moreover, through a comparatist approach, the volume highlights differences and commonalities among Hellenistic courts from royal Egypt, Syria, and Iran, to Sicily and the Balkans.
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 ages. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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