EAN: 9783111352794

THE COURTS OF PHILIP II AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT...

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.

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