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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hebblewhite, Mark, 1976- editor.

Whately, Conor, editor.

Series:

Brill's Companions to Classical Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bodyguards--Mediterranean Region--History.

Bodyguards.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : 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:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Chapter 2 Bodyguards in Ancient Egypt: Their Role as Protectors of the King

Chapter 3 Protecting the King in Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BCE: Perspectives from the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires

Chapter 4 Bodyguards and the Connecting Ideology of Early Greek Warfare

Chapter 5 Apple Bearers and Kinsmen Cavalry: Guard Units of the Kings of Achaemenid Persia

Chapter 6 The Four Hundred and the Ten Thousand: The Politics of Greek Bodyguard Service in the Achaemenid Empire

Chapter 7 Guarding the Macedonian King: Royal Servitude, Political Jockeying, and Regicide

Chapter 8 The Lictores: Guarding the Body and the Body Politic in Republican Rome

Chapter 9 "Bodyguards" and Their Responsibilities in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

Chapter 10 Making and Breaking Emperors: The cohors praetoria and the Transition of Imperial Power

Chapter 11 Specie Dominationis: The 'Ceremonial' Uses of Imperial Bodyguards Under the Principate

Chapter 12 Guarding the Emperor in an Age of Chaos

Chapter 13 Protectors and Assassins: Armed Eunuch-cubicularii and -spatharii, 400-532 CE

Chapter 14 Epilogue on Bodyguards

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hebblewhite, Mark Brill's Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean

ISBN:

9789004527683

9004527680

OCLC:

1356005968