Hellenistic Monarchies in the Mediterranean World

Dr. Mark Munn is Professor of Ancient Greek History and Archaeology at the Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Andrew Erskine is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh.

Dr. Sabine Müller is Professor of Ancient History at the History Department of Marburg University.

Dr. Sebastian Scharff holds a postdoctoral ERC-funded research fellowship in the Department of Humanities at the University of Trento.

Dr. Sylvana Katsaounou is an Archaeologist at the Ephorate of Antiquities of Preveza, Greece.

Dr. Salvatore Vacante is an independent scholar and former Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy of the German Archaeological Institute in Munich.

Dr. Jeremy LaBuff is Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History at Northern Arizona University.

Dr. Timothy Howe is Professor of History at St. Olaf College.

Dr. Gilles Gorre is Professor of Greek History at the University of Caen, Normandy, France.

Dr. Patrick Sänger is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Münster.

Dr. Jennifer Carrington is an independent scholar holding a PhD in Classical Archaeology from the Department of Classics at Cornell University.

Dr. Joseph Manning is a professor of History and holds the William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Chair in History and in Classics at Yale University.

Introduction.- The Court, the Polis and Hellenistic Intellectual Culture.- The Commemorative and Legitimizing Dimension of Cultural Property in the Hellenistic Empires.- Victorious Kings. Hellenistic Rulers and Agonistic Success.- Tyche and the Hellenistic monarchies: The fortune of a new world.- Alcetas, the Pisidians, and the Macedonian Rule in Southern Asia Minor.- Leagues of Carians as Local Rather than Imperial Structures.- Ptolemy I, the Adversary, and Egyptian Royal Literature: "Restoring" a New World Order.- The Transformation of Native Temples and Invented Traditions: Between New Religiosity and Royal Policy - The Case of Ptolemaic Egypt.- Sight-seeing and state-branding: Egyptian cultural heritage in Ptolemaic diplomacy.- Associations in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Sociopolitical Typology.- Kingship, not monarchy. Some new directions in the study of Hellenistic kingship.