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1st edition, hardback, 4to, xiv,378pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0521874483.

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Condition: Sehr gut. XIII, 358 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket, overall very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: Introduction by Tony Spawforth -- 1. New out of old? Court and court ceremonies in Achaemenid Persia by Maria Brosius -- 2. King, court and royal representation in the Sasanian empire by Josef Wiesehöfer -- 3. The court of Alexander the Great between Europe and Asia by Tony Spawforth -- 4. Friends in high places: the creation of the court of the Roman emperor by Jeremy Paterson -- 5. The imperial court of the Late Roman Empire, c. AD300 - c. AD450 by Rowland Smith -- 6. The imperial court in Han China by Hans van Ess -- 7. Court and palace in ancient Egypt: the Amarna period and later Eighteenth Dynasty by Kate Spence. - Monarchy was widespread as a political system in the ancient world. This volume offers the first substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the rulers court. The monarchies treated are Achaemenid and Sasanian Persia, the empire of Alexander, Rome under both the early and later Caesars, the Han rulers of China and Egypts Eighteenth Dynasty. A comparative approach is adopted to major aspects of ancient courts, including their organisation and physical setting, their role as a vehicle for display, and their place in monarchial structures of power and control. This approach is broadly inspired by work on courts in later periods of history, especially early-modern France. The case studies confirm that ancient monarchies created the conditions for the emergence of a court and court society. The culturally specific conditions in which these monarchies functioned meant variety in the character of the rulers court from one society to another. - A. J. S. Spawforth is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Newcastle. His publications include Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Tale of Two Cities (with Paul Cartledge, 2nd edition 2002), The Complete Greek Temples (2006) and, co-edited with Simon Hornblower, The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd edition revised 2003). ISBN 9780521874489 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Original cloth with dust jacket. …