Name: ALESSANDRA ANDRÉ CHIMINAZZO
Type: PhD thesis
Publication date: 05/04/2018
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| GILVAN VENTURA DA SILVA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
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| ÉRICA CRISTHYANE MORAIS DA SILVA | Internal Examiner * |
| GILVAN VENTURA DA SILVA | Advisor * |
| SEBASTIÃO PIMENTEL FRANCO | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: After Alexanders death, in the Eastern Mediterranean, there is a hybrid political tendency. At first, the Diadochi (successors) sought the unity of the oikoumene. Thus, they would have to manage to solve the succession issue for, according to Macedonian tradition, power should be inherited by a male heir of the Argead dynasty, of which Alexander was part. Because by dying he didn't let any male heir in condition to assume control over his throne, a second tendency emerged. A priori, there was one candidate of the Argead dynasty in Macedon and one in the East. However, the Diadochi looked for political authonomy. The first tendency preserved the idea of unity in the empire, but conditions inherent to the Macedonian kingship itself - like the doriktetos chora and the complications in the succession process - let to the fragmentation of the oikoumene in multiple kingdoms. Bearing this in mind, the main goal of this work was to investigate how, after Alexander's death, the Hellenistic kingship was built/consolidated by means of the Diadochi actions, focusing the 321 a 301 B.C. period, when Antigonus I Monophthalmus, helped by his son, Demetrius Poliorcetes, assumed control in conducting the political issues, having as departure point not only Alexander's legacy, but also East and Macedonian tradition as for monarchy and monarch conception. We believe that the Hellenistic basileia was a new element, made from the Diadochi actions, and not representative of the Macedonian monarchy anymore. Among Alexander's generals, Antigonus was the first one to be intitled basileus, together with Demetrius, hushing himself as the genuine successor of the Argead sovereign, through a series of simbolic resources. With his son, Antigonus had a fundamental role in the establishment of monarchy. When his army claimed him basileus in 306 B.C., the first Hellenistic king had already employed the association with Alexander in the numismatic representations, affiliated himself with deities, united elements of Macedonian, Hellenistic and East traditions, followed as founder of cities; and self proclaimed the greater benefactor of Greek cities, being worshiped in services and festivities that honored himself and Demetrius. That is why father and son held the primacy in the fabrication of the Hellenistic basileia.
