Research Catalog

Title

Imaginary kings : royal images in the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome / Olivier Hekster, Richard Fowler (eds.).

Publication

Stuttgart : Steiner, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hekster, Olivier
• Fowler, Richard, 1971-

Description

231 p., [20] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• Geschichte
• Oriens et occidens ; Bd. 11

Uniform Title

• Oriens et occidens ; Bd. 11.
• Geschichte (Franz Steiner Verlag)

Subject

• Kings and rulers in art
• Portraits, Ancient > Greece
• Portraits, Ancient > Rome
• Portraits, Ancient > Middle East
• Kings and rulers in art > History > Congresses
• Kings and rulers in numismatics > Mediterranean Region > History > Congresses
• Propaganda > Mediterranean Region > History > Congresses
• Mediterranean Region > Kings and rulers > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• "This voIume originates as a ... seminar ... held in Trinity Term 2003 for the Sub-Faculty of Ancient History, Oxford, at Merton Collge ..."--Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-218) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Imagining kings : from Persia to Rome / Richard Fowler & Olivier Hekster -- Le roi imaginaire : an audience with the Achaemenid king / Lindsay Allen -- The tragic king : Demetrios Poliorketes and the city of Athens / Peter Thonemann -- Philorōmaios kaì philéllēn : Roman perception of Commagenian royalty / Margherita Facella -- A curia of kings : Sulla and royal imagery / Matthew Gisborne -- 'Most fortunate roots' : tradition and legitimacy in Parthian royal ideology / Richard Fowler -- Captured in the gaze of power : visibility, games and Roman imperial representation / Olivier Hekster -- Kingly priests in the Roman Near East? / Ted Kaizer.

ISBN

3515087656 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

• 62309472
• SCSB-10944926

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library