Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity : Studies in Honor of Elizabeth D. Carney / edited by Monica D'Agostini, Edward M. Anson and Frances Pownall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agostini, Monica, editor.

Anson, Edward, editor.

Pownall, Frances, 1963- editor.

Carney, Elizabeth Donnelly, 1947- honouree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Greece--History--To 1500.

Families.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Haverton, PA : Oxbow Books, 2021.

Summary:

The intense bonds among the king and his family, friends, lovers, and entourage are the most enticing and intriguing aspects of Alexander the Great's life. The affective ties of the protagonists of Alexander's Empire nurtured the interest of the ancient authors, as well as the audience, in the personal life of the most famous men and women of the time. These relations echoed through time in art and literature, to become paradigm of positive or negative, human behavior. 0By rejecting the perception of the Macedonian monarchy as a positivist king-army based system, and by looking for other political and social structures Elizabeth Carney has played a crucial role in prompting the current re-appraisal of the Macedonian monarchy. Her volumes on Women and Monarchy in Ancient Macedonia (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great (Routledge, 2006), Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life. (Oxford University Press, 2013) have been game-changers in the field and has offered the academic world a completely new perspective on the network of relationships surrounding the exercise of power. By examining Macedonian and Hellenistic dynastic behavior and relations, she has shown the political yet tragic, heroic thus human side, thus connecting Hellenistic political and social history.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction Edward M. Anson, Monica D'Agostini and Frances Pownall

Part I: The Restricted Oikos

Familial Affection and Kinship

1. Alexander the Great and his Sisters: Blood in the Hellenistic Palace: Monica D'Agostini

2. Alexander's Wet-Nurse Lanice and Her Sons: Sulochana Asirvatham

3. Olympias' Pharmaka? Nature, Causes, Therapies and Physicians of Arrhidaeus' Disease: Giuseppe Squillace

4. The Limits of Brotherly Love: Neoptolemus II and Molossian Dynastic History: Waldemar Heckel

Marriages and Family: Mistress, Wife and Daughter

5. Barsine, Antigone and the Macedonian War: Sabine Müller

6. Antipater and His Family: A Case Study: Franca Landucci

7. Romance and Rivalry? Three Case Studies of Royal Mothers and Daughters in the Hellenistic Age: Sheila Ager

Affection for Animals

8. Alexander's Pets: Animals and the Macedonian Court: Elizabeth Baynham

9. The Theft of Bucephalas: Daniel Ogden

Part II: The Extended Oikos

Friendship within the Oikos

10. Alexander's Friends: Joseph Roisman

11. Callisthenes the Prig: William Greenwalt

12. Friendship is Golden: Harpalus, Alexander and Athens: Timothy Howe

13. Mithridates Ctistes and Demetrius Poliorcetes: Erastes and Eromenos?: Pat Wheatley

Friendship beyond the Oikos

14. The Father of the Army: Alexander and the Epigoni: Edward M. Anson

15. Sophists and Flatterers: Greek Intellectuals at Alexander's Court: Frances Pownall

16. Alexander the Great and the Athenians: Deification and Portraiture: Olga Palagia

Concluding Remarks: Frances Pownall, Edward M. Anson and Monica D'Agostini.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781789255010

1789255015

9781789254990

178925499X

OCLC:

1407283874