The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies
Cambridge University Press | 2007-11-05 | ISBN: 0521874483 | 376 pages | PDF | 3,5 MB
Cambridge University Press | 2007-11-05 | ISBN: 0521874483 | 376 pages | PDF | 3,5 MB
Monarchy was widespread as a political system in the ancient world. This volume offers the first substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler's court. The monarchies treated are Achaemenid and Sassanian Persia, the empire of Alexander, Rome under both the early and later Caesars, the Han rulers of China and Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty.