Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires: The Near East After the Achaemenids, c. 330 to 30 BCE - Rilegato

Strootman, Rolf

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ISBN 10: 074869126X ISBN 13: 9780748691265

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Rolf Strootman brings together various aspects of court culture in the Macedonian empires of the post-Achaemenid Near East. During the Hellenistic Period (c. 330-30 BCE), Alexander the Great and his successors reshaped their Persian and Greco-Macedonian legacies to create a new kind of rulership that was neither western' nor 'eastern' and would profoundly influence the later development of court culture and monarchy in both the Roman West and Iranian East.
Drawing on the socio-political models of Norbert Elias and Charles Tilly, After the Achaemenids shows how the Hellenistic dynastic courts were instrumental in the integration of local elites in the empires, and the (re)distribution of power, wealth, and status. It analyses the competition among courtiers for royal favour and the, not always successful, attempts of the Hellenistic rulers to use these struggles to their own advantage.

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L'autore:

Rolf Strootman graduated in ancient history and archaeology at the University of Leiden. In 2007 he received his PhD for a study of court culture in the Hellenistic period. He is currently a lecturer at the History Department of the University of Utrecht. His research and teaching focus on empire, monarchical ritual and cultural encounters in the Near East, Iran and Central Asia, and on modern western perceptions of the Middle East.

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• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 074869126X
• ISBN 13: 9780748691265
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 318