King and court in ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE / / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970255103321
• Autore: Llewellyn-Jones Lloyd
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 9780748677108; 0748677100; 9781299105690; 1299105696
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Collana: Debates and documents in ancient history
• Disciplina: 935.7
• Soggetti: Iran History To 640
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Debates -- pt. II. Documents.
• Sommario/riassunto: Explores Achaemenid kingship and argues for the centrality of the royal court in elite Persian society. The first Persian Empire (559-331 BCE) was the biggest land empire the world had seen, and seated at the heart of its vast dominions, in the south of modern-day Iran, was the person of the Great King. Hidden behind the walls of his vast palace, and surrounded by the complex rituals of court ceremonial, the Persian monarch was undisputed master of his realm, a god-like figure of awe, majesty, and mystery.Yet the court of the Great King was no simple platform for meaningless theatrical display