Brill's companion to bodyguards in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Mark Hebblewhite, Conor Whately.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hebblewhite, Mark, editor.

Whately, Conor, editor.

Series:

Brill's companions to classical studies : warfare in the ancient Mediterranean world, 2452-1493 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bodyguards--Mediterranean Region--History.

Bodyguards.

Physical Description:

x, 308 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"Brill's Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean is the first scholarly volume solely dedicated to understanding bodyguards of the ancient Mediterranean world. From the Pharaohs of Egypt through to the emperors of the Early Byzantine Empire, this volume not only identifies who served as bodyguards for rulers and other political powerbrokers, but also details the symbolic role bodyguards played in the maintenance of power. The volume also highlights the political, religious, and social significance of bodyguards to individual regimes, and the important role bodyguards played in the projection of power and legitimacy to key interest groups within a particular society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean World / Conor Whatety

2. Bodyguards in Ancient Egypt: Their Role as Protectors of the King / Susan Thorpe

3. Protecting the King in Mesopotamia in the First Millennium bce: Perspectives from the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires / Shana Zaia

4. Bodyguards and the Connecting Ideology of Early Greek Warfare / Emily K. Varto

5. Apple Bearers and Kinsmen Cavalry: Guard Units of the Kings of Achaemenid Persia / Michael B. Charles

6. The Four Hundred and the Ten Thousand: The Politics of Greek Bodyguard Service in the Achaemenid Empire / Jeffrey Rop

7. Guarding the Macedonian King: Royal Servitude, Political Jockeying, and Regicide / Carol J. King

8. The Lictores: Guarding the Body and the Body Politic in Republican Rome / Jeremy Armstrong

9. "Bodyguards" and Their Responsibilities in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / Matt Gibbs

10. Making and Breaking Emperors: The cohors praetoria and the Transition of Imperial Power / Gwynaeth Mclntyre

11. Specie Dominationis: The `Ceremonial' Uses of Imperial Bodyguards Under the Principate / Christian Rollinger

12. Guarding the Emperor in an Age of Chaos / Mark Hebblewhite

13. Protectors and Assassins: Armed Eunuch-cubicutarii and - spatharii, 400-532 CE / Michael Edward Stewart

14. Epilogue on Bodyguards / Maxime Emion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version : Brill's companion to bodyguards in the ancient Mediterranean

ISBN:

9789004527676

9004527672

OCLC:

1347363536