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Royal Patronage - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Seleucid
      - Ptolemaic
      - Antigonids
    - - These kings had all fought in Asia Minor, accompanying Alexander across his campaign towards India
        
        They had established ties originating in their youth, despite their evolution into rivals
      - Antigonous the One-Eyed, however, was a contemporary of Philip I
        
        He was from another generation
    - - Ethnic vs personal monarchy
        
        Everyone had some sort of alliance to the king and he had to maintain his loyalty
      - King assists the queen, the people, and his military forces
  - - - Took care to support the people of their cities and kingdoms
      - Received loyalty in return
    - - Grain crisis
      - Building
        
        A gesture towards the city
        
        A lasting honour towards themselves
      - Disasters
    - - Recipients of petitions
  - - - Seleucids --> Apollo
      - Ptolemies --> Heracles
      - Antigonids --> Heracles; Pan as a patron
    - - Civic cults
        
        Initiated by cities, not the king
      - Dynastic cults
        
        Established and promoted by the kings themselves
  - - - Therefore the king elevates an individual's prestige and status
        
        Many reasons one may gravitate towards positions in the court
    - - The members of court had to support and believe in the king for him to remain powerful
      - These relationships can come under strain
        
        When a new king comes to power and faces a court loyal to the previous king
        
        He needs to reaffirm their status, and vice versa
    - - Ptolemaic kingdom
        
        Alexandria was the home of the Ptolemaic court
        
        Court stayed in one place
        
        however, if the kid moved, the court would move with him
      - Seleucids kingdom
        
        Constantly moving across the kingdom to assert power
  - - - Reflects the kingdom and the kingdom's values
      - Friends
        
        Greco-Macedonian elites
        
        Usually supplied by the kingdoms Greek cities
      - Royal family
        
        Queen and other family members
        
        Marriage to a royal woman from another dynasty was common
        
        She would bring her own entourage from outside
      - Doctors
        
        Crucial for providing kings with the best medical attention and treatment, especially following battle
      - Cultural figures
        
        Poets
        
        Artists
        
        Philosophers
      - Absence of non-Greeks/Macedonians
  - - - Did not always appear on coins, HOWEVER
      - Appear in inscriptions
      - Communicated with the city
      - Evidence of queens writing letters between cities
      - Queen acts as a benefactor to the city
  - - - Quotes from Demetrius of Scepsis
        
        'Habit' of the king Antiochus and friends to 'dance under arms at dinner'
        
        Practices of dancing in arm at banquets
        
        Historian recites his work rather than dances
    - - Importance of banquet
      - Role of king as host and arbiter
      - King is not a remote figure, takes part
      - Contribution of literacy contribution to the court
      - High status of the friends
      - War and violence come out in these people's entertainment
        
        Dancing in arms
  - - - 'The museum was also part of the palace complex'
      - 'Common dining all for the learned people'
- - - - One of the successors of Alexander the Great
      - Had under his control Trace and Asia Minor
    - - North, west, and east side was steep
      - South side could be built on
      - Had an acropolis
      - Even after the Hellenistic period, the Romans took over and built further
    - - Framed his own stronghold in Pergamon, rich with the treasury at his hands
      - Formed the Attalid Dynasty
        
        Upon his death, his nephew, Eumenes I took over Pergamon
        
        Faced issued with Gaul tribes
        
        Eumenes' successor, Atlas I, defeated the Gauls in a series of battles in the 230s BC
    - - A temple of Athena Nike
      - Library
      - Panathenaic festival
  - - - Depicts a foreigner
        
        Moustache
        
        Thick and textured hair (not associated with the Greeks)
        
        Torque around his neck (connected with the Gauls)
      - Nude
        
        Heroic and vulnerable
        
        To depict your opponent as strong showed dignity of the artist
      - An injured individual
        
        Use of copper to depict blood on his side
        
        Anguish in face
        
        Dilated veins
        
        Looks away from viewer
      - Wrinkles
      - Bulges of brows
      - Hellenistic baroque style (late c3rd BC and c2nd BC)
        
        Emotion and drama
        
        Interest in textures
    - - Hellenistic baroque style
        
        High drama and emotion
        
        Textures
        
        Twist of his body
        
        Cape
      - The man is a Gaul
        
        Thick textured hair
        
        Moustache
      - Focus on the dignity of the opponent
        
        Potentially depicts a Gaul killing himself and his wife to avoid capture
      - Garment of the woman
        
        The fabric flows with the body and curves
      - Man looks up --> climax of the action
      - Not engaging with the viewer
      - Shows the opponent is strong and worthy
        
        Elevates the Gauls in status, proving them as worthy opponents
      - The woman depicted
        
        Non-Greek
        
        Short hair
  - - - Giantomachy (100 figures)
    - - Olympian deities (east)
      - Underworld and night deities (north)
      - Water deities ans Dionysus (west)
      - Light and air deities (south)
    - - High drama
      - Highly textured
      - Emotion
- - - - Noble families would send their children here for education
      - Other powerful Greek cities tried to emulate Athens