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Loading... The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Greatby Frances Pownall (Editor), Sulochana R. Asirvatham (Editor), Sabine Müller (Editor)
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This collection originated from the 2018 (eighth) international conference on Alexander the Great in Edmonton, hosted by the University of Alberta. The first of these periodic conferences was instituted by Waldemar Heckel in Calgary in 2002, and they have grown in participation and scope ever since. Most also subsequently produced proceedings edited by the conference coordinator and peers, as is the case here with Frances Pownall, ably abetted by Sulochana Asirvatham and 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 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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)938.070922History and Geography Ancient World Greece to 323 Greece to 323 Macedonian Supremacy (362-323 BC)LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |