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Diadem and Kingship - Hans-Werner Ritter: Diadem und Königsherrschaft. Untersuchungen zu Zeremonien und Rechtsgrundlagen des Herrschqftsantritts bei den Persern, bei Alexander dem Großen und im Hellenismus. Pp. xiv + 191. Munich: Beck, 1965. Paper, DM. 26.

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Oswyn Murray
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The Classical Review , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1966 , pp. 224 - 227
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page 224 note 1 Here, with Ritter, we should except Alföldi.

page 225 note 1 Listed in Der König von Frankreich 2 (1960), ii. 33 f.; for later studies see p. 6.

page 225 note 2 He obviously owes something to S. Grenz, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Diadems in den hellenistischen Reichen (Diss. Greifswald, 1914); the fact that this is not available in England will enhance the value of his work, though it makes it difficult to judge his originality.

page 225 note 3 On the problems connected with Greek representations of Persian dress (pp. 14 ff.) see also A. Alföldi, Studies in Honour of A. M. Friend (1955), 15 ff.

page 225 note 4Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde xlvii (1951), 11 ff.; G. Widengren, Hommages à G. Dumézil (1960), 225 ff.; G. Binder, Die Aussetzung des Königskindes Kyros und Romulus (1964), 17 ff., 70 f.; cf. 162 f.: the legend of Sargon king of Accad.

page 226 note 1 Rather than A.D. 14. The importance of this consideration is often overlooked: cf. L. Herrman, R.E.A. xxxi (1929), 217 ff.; G. V. Sumner, A.U.M.L.A. xv (1961), 30 ff.

page 226 note 2 There is a certain academicism in Ritter's approach; he seems not to have taken account of M. J. Fontana, ‘Le lotte per la successione di Alessandro Magno’ (Atti Acc. Sc. Lett, e Art. Palermo xviii. 2 [1959], 103 ff.), or E. Badian's important review, Gnomon xxxiv (1962), 381 ff. = Studies in Greek and Roman History, 262 ff.

page 226 note 3 And later backdated his reign in accordance: Ritter pp. 103 ff.

page 226 note 4 This was one of the few occasions when the king allowed himself to be crowned by others: not surprisingly, Antigonus wished to appear to yield to pressure—Ritter's first explanation (pp. 83 f.) is the best.

page 227 note 1 For the possibilities here, compare the programme announced in Deutsche Königspfalzen (Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte xi. 1) i (1963).