Brill’s Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean / volume edited by Mark Hebblewhite and Conor Whately.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies ; 5.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9789004527676
- 9789004527683
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- HV8081
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean World / Conor Whately -- Chapter 2 Bodyguards in Ancient Egypt: Their Role as Protectors of the King / Susan Thorpe -- Chapter 3 Protecting the King in Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BCE : Perspectives from the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires / Shana Zaia -- Chapter 4 Bodyguards and the Connecting Ideology of Early Greek Warfare / Emily K. Varto -- Chapter 5 Apple Bearers and Kinsmen Cavalry: Guard Units of the Kings of Achaemenid Persia / Michael B. Charles -- Chapter 6 The Four Hundred and the Ten Thousand: The Politics of Greek Bodyguard Service in the Achaemenid Empire / Jeffrey Rop -- Chapter 7 Guarding the Macedonian King: Royal Servitude, Political Jockeying, and Regicide / Carol J. King -- Chapter 8 The Lictores : Guarding the Body and the Body Politic in Republican Rome / Jeremy Armstrong -- Chapter 9 ''Bodyguards" and Their Responsibilities in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / Matt Gibbs -- Chapter 10 Making and Breaking Emperors: The cohors praetoria and the Transition of Imperial Power / Gwynaeth McIntyre -- Chapter 11 Specie Dominationis : The 'Ceremonial' Uses of Imperial Bodyguards Under the Principate / Christian Rollinger -- Chapter 12 Guarding the Emperor in an Age of Chaos / Mark Hebblewhite -- Chapter 13 Protectors and Assassins: Armed Eunuch- cubicularii and - spatharii , 400-532 CE / Michael Edward Stewart -- Chapter 14 Epilogue on Bodyguards / Maxime Emion -- Index.
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.
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