Summary: Week 10: Palaces And Royal Tombs / Cities, Population And Landscpae

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• Macedon in the 4th century BC

  
  
  

  • The development of a royal style
  • Pella: the new capital
  • royal palace of ArchelaosI (king: 413 -399 BC)
  • Aigai: the old capital (Vergina)
  • royal palace
  • cemetery of the Macedonian kings 
  • Palace and government moved to Pella but Aigairemained the traditional ‘home’ and was the burial place for the Macedonia royalty

• Pella (city Macedon)

  
  

  • Royal palace on the acropolis
  • multiple buildings with 153m long façade
  • palaistra (worstelplaats)
  • baths
  • palace and administrative centre
  • Town
  • Hippodamian(orthogonal) city plan
  • central agora of 238x262m
  • housing blocks with average size of 45x125m
  • Houses
  • water supply
  • elite houses with elaborate mosaics, e.g. House of Dionysos

  
  
  House of Dionysos, Pella
  

  • large house with mosaic walls
  • Dionysos riding panther
  • lion hunt mosaic

  
  
  Royal palace at Pella
  

  • public baths

• Aigai (city, Macedon)

  
  

  • Ancient capital city of Macedon
  • Residence of the Argead Dynasty (Temenids) until the reign of Archelaos I
  • Aigai remained the ‘heart’ of Macedon
  • site of important events such as royal weddings
  • burial place of the Macedonian royal family
  • Palace
  • Royal burials
  • ‘Great Tumulus’

  
  
  Palace at Aigai
  
  

  • Built during the reign of Philip II
  • Peristyle courtyard surrounded by rooms
  • Monumental façade
  • view over Macedonian plain
  • view over theatre
  • Elaborate decoration
  • mosaic floors
  • painted walls
  • marble stucco

• Palace at Demetrias (city, Thessaly)

  • Founded by Demetrias Poliorcetes c. 293 BC
  • Complex developed around 200 BC
  • Probably abandoned after 168 BC
  • And deserted after 120 BC
  • Many rooms designed for klinai
  • Entertaining guests, drinking, feasting
  • Eastern influence seen in architecture
  • Carian builders?

• Palace at Alexandria, Egypty

  
  

  • Commissioned by Alexander
  • Palace complex of the Ptolemies
  • Destroyed during a 4thcentury AD earthquake
  • Textual evidence and some remains found underwater
  • Vast size
  • Elaborate decoration: mosaics, sculpture, curtains, animal skins, vaulted ceiling
  • temples, banqueting halls, Mouseion and Library, residences, parks with pavilions and gardens, and the Sema, or royal burial grounds with the (supposed!) tomb of Alexander that firmly established the all‐important dynastic legitimacy of the Macedonian rulers

  
  
  Thalamegos
  
  

  • The Ptolemaic river boat palace c. 200 BC
  • Ptolemy IV (222–205 BC) and Arsinoe III
  • (lecture) boat/tent palace -> even on the road alexander had a great display of wealth
  • dining purposes: banqueting rooms

• Palace at Pergamon (attalid)

  • Founded in 281 BC by Philetairos(c.343–263 BC)
  • the first of the Attaliddynasty, a one‐time general under Lysimachos
  • Fortified acropolis including palaces (six building units), temples, stoas, library, theatre, barracks, arsenal etc.
  • Lavish decoration
  • Corinthian columns, wall paintings, mosaics, altar of a private sanctuary (with parakeet mosaic)

  
  
  
  Royal Power
  

  • Victory monuments at Pergamon
  • Gaulsstatues known from fragmentary bases and Roman copies

• MACEDONIAN TOMB AT AGIOS ATHANASIOS IN THESSALONIKI

  
  

  • Barrel-vaulted tomb
  • Within tumulus
  • Same style to the royal tombs at Aigai
  • Architectural style new in Macedon/Greece
  • Last quarter 4thcentury BC
  • Painted facade
  • Wall paintings depict Macedonian soldiers and banqueting

• Macedonian tombs at Mieza

  • Tomb of Judgement
  • Beginning 3rdcentury BC
  • Tomb of Palmettes
  • First half 3rdcentury BC
  • Façade with temple pediment

• Dynastic/Royal Tombs in Asia Minor and Levant4th-1stcenturies

  • Mausoleum of Halikarnassos(Caria), pre-351 BC
  • Nereid Tomb, 4th C. BC, Xanthos (Lycia)
  • Al Khazneh Tomb, Petra (1st C. BC)

  
  
  
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  Mausoleum of Halikarnassos
  

  • amazing building

  
  alkazneh tomb
  

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• How did the art and architecture of the late-Classical to early Hellenistic period reflect changes in society and how was it used for controlling political power?

  Group D: What were the palaces and how did they reflect the politics and power of the Hellenistic rulers?
  
  
  Group E:  What do the Royal Macedonian tombs reflect about changes in society in this period?
  
  
  Group F:  How was the art and architecture of the ‘ruler cult’ used for political means?