Hunters, Heroes, Kings

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Hunters, Heroes, Kings is written by Hallie M. Franks and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1621390101 (ISBN 10) and 9781621390107 (ISBN 13).

This monograph considers the painted frieze on the facade of Tomb II at Vergina (ca. 330-280 B.C.) as a visual document that offers vital evidence for the public self-stylings of Macedonian royalty in the era surrounding the reign of Alexander the Great. The hunting scene on the frieze reflects the construction of Macedonian royal identity through the appeal to specific and long-standing cultural traditions, which emerged, long before Alexanders reign, out of a complex negotiation of claims to heroic and local dynastic pasts, regional ideals of kingship, and models of royal behavior provided by the East.