Brill's Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52767-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies / Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hebblewhite, Mark

Whately, Conor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

1 Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Conor Whately

2 Bodyguards in Ancient Egypt: Their Role as Protectors of the King

Susan Thorpe

3 Protecting the King in Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BCE: Perspectives from the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires

Shana Zaia

4 Bodyguards and the Connecting Ideology of Early Greek Warfare

Emily K. Varto

5 Apple Bearers and Kinsmen Cavalry: Guards Units of the Kings of Achaemenid Persia

Michael Charles

6 The Four Hundred and the Ten Thousand: The Politics of Greek Bodyguard Service in the Achaemenid Empire

Jeffrey Rop

7 Guarding the Macedonian King: Royal Servitude, Political Jockeying, and Regicide

Carol J. King

8 The Lictores: Guarding the Body and the Body Politic in Republican Rome

Jeremy Armstrong

9 “Bodyguards” and Their Responsibilities in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

Matt Gibbs

10 Making and Breaking Emperors: The cohors praetoria and the Transition of Imperial Power

Gwynaeth McIntyre

11 Specie Dominationis: The ‘Ceremonial’ Uses of Imperial Bodyguards Under the Principate

Christian Rollinger

12 Guarding the Emperor in an Age of Chaos

Mark Hebblewhite

13 Protectors and Assassins: Armed Eunuch-cubicularii and -spatharii, 400–532 CE

Michael Edward Stewart

14 Epilogue on Bodyguards

Maxime Emion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Conor Whately, Ph.D. (2009), Warwick University, is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg. He has published monographs, textbooks, and edited volumes on warfare, frontiers, and historiography in the Roman and Byzantine worlds, including Battles and Generals and Procopius on Soldiers and Military Institutions in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire, both published by Brill (2016, 2021).

Mark Hebblewhite completed his PhD at Macquarie University, Australia in 2012. His research interests centre on the ideology and politics of the later Roman Empire, with particular reference to the role of the army. His published work includes The Emperor And The Army In The Later Roman Empire and Theodosius and the Limits of Empire, both with Routledge. He currently works at the Australian Catholic University.

Contributors are: Jeremy Armstrong, Michael Charles, Maxime Emion, Matt Gibbs, Mark Hebblewhite, Carol J. King, Gwynaeth McIntyre, Christian Rollinger, Jeffrey Rop, Michael Stewart, Susan Thorpe, Emily Varto, Conor Whately, Shana Zaia.