Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Alex Mcauley

Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period (eBook, ePUB)

Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This first full-length study of sister-queens Kleopatra II and Kleopatra Thea explores the roles and ideology of ancient queensship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of the late Hellenistic world. Suitable for students and scholars of Egyptology, gender in antiquity, and ancient history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351797443
• Artikelnr.: 64066100

Autorenporträt

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones holds the Chair in Ancient History at Cardiff University. He has published widely on Hellenistic, Greek, and Persian history as well as on gender studies and reception studies. His latest book is Persians: the Age of the Great Kings (2022).

Alex McAuley is Senior Lecturer in Hellenistic History at Cardiff University. He is the co-editor of Seleukid Royal Women (2016) and Ethnos and Koinon (2019), and has published widely on the Hellenistic dynasties, Greek civic culture, and the reception of Antiquity in film and television.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Importance of Being Ptolemaic: Royal Women in Context
2. Princesses to Queens
3. Mothers
Wives
Queens
4. Queenship in Name; Queenship Through Image; Queenship in Practice
5. Fast-Forward: The Pent¿kontaetia
Epilogue.