The Art of Queenship in the Hellenistic World
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 31 July 2025
- ISBN 9781009502122
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 259x186x21 mm
- Weight 800 g
- Language English 691
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Short description:
This book explores how ancient queens were important subjects and patrons of dynastic art. artistic expressions of political power.
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In The Art of Queenship in the Hellenistic World, Patricia Eunji Kim examines the visual and material cultures of Hellenistic queens, the royal and dynastic women who served as subjects and patrons of art. Exploring evidence in the interconnected eastern Mediterranean and western Asia from the fourth to second centuries BCE, Kim argues that the arts of queenship were central to expressions of dynastic (and sometimes even imperial) consolidation, continuity, and legitimacy. From gems, coins, and vessels to monuments and sculpture, the visual and material cultures of queenship appeared in a range of sacred settings, public spaces, royal courts, and domestic domains. Encompassing several dynasties, including the Hecatomnids, Argeads, Ptolemies, Seleucids, and Attalids, Kim inaugurates new methods for comparing and interpreting visual articulations of queenship and ideal femininity from distinct yet culturally entangled contexts, thus illuminating the ways that women had an impact art and politics in the ancient world.
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Abbreviations and sources; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Engendering dynasty: monumental women and public sculpture; 2. Foreign royal wives from Asia and objects of Hellenistic queenship; 3. (Be)Holding the beautiful bodies of Ptolemaic queens; 4. Imperial kinship and care in portrayals of Seleucid queenship; 5. Royal mothers and Attalid dynastic monuments; Conclusion: looking for queens; Bibliography.
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