Table of Contents

.         Court, Kingship, and Royal Style in the Early Hellenistic Period             Shane Wallace (TCD, Dublin) 2.         At Home with Royalty: Constructing the Hellenistic Palace             Janett Morgan (Royal Holloway, London) 3.         The Seleucid and Achaemenid Court: Continuity or Change?             David Engels (Brussels) 4.         ???? ???????: The Multiple Ways of Life of Courtiers in the Hellenistic Age             Ivana Savalli-Lestrade (CNRS, Paris) 5.         Eunuchs, Renegades and Concubines: The ‘Paradox of Power’ and the Promotion of Favourites in the Hellenistic Empires             Rolf Strootman (Utrecht) 6.         Callimachus, Theocritus and Ptolemaic Court Etiquette             Ivana Petrovic (Virginia) 7.         Symbol and Ceremony: Royal Weddings in the Hellenistic Age             Sheila Ager (Waterloo) 8.         Once a Seleucid, Always a Seleucid: Seleucid Princesses and and their Nuptial Courts             Alex McAuley (Cardiff) 9.         In the Mirror of Hetairai. Tracing Aspects of the Interaction Between Polis Life and Court Life in the Early Hellenistic Age             Kostas Buraselis (Athens) 10.       Image and Communication in the Seleucid Kingdom: the King, the Court and the Cities             Paola Ceccarelli (UCL) 11.       Outside the Capital: the Ptolemaic Court and its Courtiers             Dorothy J. Thompson (Cambridge) 12.       Courting the Public: the Attalid Court and Domestic Display             Craig Hardiman (Waterloo) 13.       Hellenistic Patronage and the non-Greek World             Erich Gruen (Berkeley) 14.       Bithynia and Cappadocia: Royal Courts and Ruling Society in the Minor Hellenistic Monarchies             Oleg Gabelko (Russian State University) 15.       Deserving the Court’s Trust: Jews in Ptolemaic Egypt             Livia Capponi (Pavia) 16.       Misconduct and Disloyalty in the Seleucid Court             Peter Franz Mittag (Cologne) 17.       The Hands of Gods? Poison and Power in the Hellenistic Court             Stephanie Winder (Edinburgh) 18.       The Royal Court in Ancient Macedonia: the Evidence from Tombs             Olga Palagia (Athens)

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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.

About the Author

ANDREW ERSKINE is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Hellenistic Stoa: Political Thought and Action; Troy between Greece and Rome: Local Tradition and Imperial Power and Roman Imperialism. Edited books include A Companian to the Hellenistic World and (with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones) Creating a Hellenistic World. LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES is Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University. He is the author of Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece; King and Court in Ancient Persia, Ctesia's Persica: Tales of the Orient, The Culture of Animals in Antiquity and Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World. Forthcoming publications include Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: The Visual World of Achaemenid Iran. SHANE WALLACE is Walsh Family Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on the history and epigraphy of the early Hellenistic period. He is currently completing a book entitled 'The Politics of Freedom: Kings and Cities in the Early Hellenistic Period.'