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The Hellenistic Court Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

The Hellenistic Court Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra

By Andrew Erskine, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Shane Wallace

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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 ...Show more

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9781910589625

Publisher

Classical Press of Wales

Published year

2017

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1

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The Hellenistic Court Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra

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Hardcover

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