Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors

John Holton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-39912-9 (ISBN)

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Examining the period of political consolidation after Alexander the Great’s death, John Holton reconstructs how the successors used new frameworks of royal ideology to create long-term kingships. There is a particular focus on the deeper manoeuvres within the inter-generational impact raging from the influence of religion and family relations, to succession-planning and royal funerals.

In this innovative book, Holton expertly reveals how powerful elites either succeeded or failed in creating lasting dynastic power. From the chaos of a collapsing empire to the solidification of a new model for autocratic power, the consolidation of the institution of Hellenistic kingship across the generation of Alexander’s successors (323-276 BC) is comprehensively investigated. With a comparative perspective and detailed studies of diverse evidence, this is the first dedicated study of the consolidation of Hellenistic kingship and the first to put these beginnings in an international context.

John Holton is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University, UK. His primary research expertise and publication record is in Hellenistic history and intellectual history, including the study of Alexander the Great and his successors (the diadochoi), ancient monarchies, and universal historiography.

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chronology

1. New Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power
2. Gods and Mortals: Structures of Divine Kingship
3. Institutional Symmetry: Joint Kingship and Indivisible basileia
4. Royal Death and Ideological Legacy
Conclusions

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.6.2025
Zusatzinfo	23 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-39912-4 / 1350399124
ISBN-13	978-1-350-39912-9 / 9781350399129
Zustand	Neuware