Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Hekster, Olivier
2. Fowler, Richard, 1971-

Description

1. 231 p., [20] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Series statement

1. Geschichte
2. Oriens et occidens ; Bd. 11

Uniform title

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

Subject

1. Kings and rulers in art
2. Portraits, Ancient > Greece
3. Portraits, Ancient > Rome
4. Portraits, Ancient > Middle East
5. Kings and rulers in art > History > Congresses
6. Kings and rulers in numismatics > Mediterranean Region > History > Congresses
7. Propaganda > Mediterranean Region > History > Congresses
8. Mediterranean Region > Kings and rulers > Congresses

Genre/Form

1. Conference papers and proceedings
2. History

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. "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)

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

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain