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Subject(s)

• Queens—Mediterranean Region—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Women—Political activity—Mediterranean Region—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Women in public life—Mediterranean Region—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Nobility—Mediterranean Region—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Mediterranean Region—History—To 476 [Browse]

Editor

• Carney, Elizabeth Donnelly, 1947- [Browse]
• Müller, Sabine, 1972- [Browse]

Biographical/​Historical note

Elizabeth D. Carney is Professor of History and Carol K. Brown Scholar in the Humanities, Emerita, at Clemson University, USA. Her focus has been on Macedonian and Hellenistic monarchy and the role of royal women in monarchy, most recently in Molossia. She has written Women and Monarchy in Ancient Macedonia (2000), Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great (2006), Arsinoë of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life (2013), and Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (2019). Some of her articles dealing with monarchy, with new afterwords, are collected in King and Court in Ancient Macedonia: Rivalry, Treason and Conspiracy (2015). Sabine Müller is Professor of Ancient History at Marburg University, Germany. Her research focuses on the Persian empire, Argead Macedonia, the Hellenistic empires, Macedonian royal women, Lukian, and reception studies. Her publications include the monographs Das hellenistische Kn̲igspaar in der medialen Reprs̃entation. Ptolemaios II. und Arsinoë II. (2009), Perdikkas II. - Retter Makedoniens (2017), and Alexander der Große. Eroberung - Politik - Rezeption (2019).

Summary note

"This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title, role in succession, the situation of mothers, wives and daughters of kings, regnant and co-regnant women, role in cult and in dynastic image, while also examining a sampling of the careers of individual women while placing them within broader contexts. Written by an international group of experts, this collection is based on the assumption that women played a fundamental role in ancient monarchy, that they were part, not apart from it, and that it is necessary to understand their role to understand ancient monarchies. This is a crucial resource for anyone interested in the role of women in antiquity"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 05, 2021).

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Endorsement
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of contents
• Figures
• Table
• Contributors
• Part I Women and monarchy in the ancient Mediterranean
• 1 Introduction to thinking about women and monarchy in the ancient world
• Part II Egypt and the Nile Valley
• 2 The king's mother in the Old and Middle Kingdoms
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• 3 Regnant women in Egypt
• Cultural context and sources
• The terminology and scope of this chapter
• Current state of research
• Examples of (co-)regnant women in ancient Egypt
• Dynasty 1: Neithhotep and Meretneith
• Dynasties 4-5: the king's mother Khentkaus and an unknown king's wife
• Dynasty 6: Nitokris
• Dynasty 12: Neferusobek (or Sobeknofru, Skemiophris)
• Dynasties 17-18: Tetisheri and Ahmes-Nefertari
• Dynasty 18: Hatshepsut
• Late Dynasty 18: Tiy and Nefertiti
• Dynasty 19: Nefertari and Tawosret
• Powerful royal women after the late New Kingdom
• 4 The image of Nefertiti
• Introduction to the image of Nefertiti
• Thebes, the early years
• The queen in the new capital
• The aftermath
• An alternative ending?
• 5 The God's Wife of Amun: Origins and rise to power
• 6 The role and status of royal women in Kush
• Introduction
• Sources
• Archaeological sources
• Pictorial presentations
• (Egyptian) texts
• Classical authors
• Appearance in textual and visual representations
• Names and titles
• Costume
• The functions of the royal women in the Kushite kingdom
• Roles in cultic actions
• Roles in succession and coronation
• Roles in the ideology of kingship
• Ruling queens
• Final remarks
• Bibliography.
• 7 Ptolemaic royal women
• The valorization of the royal conjugal couple
• Royal partnership in political matters and joint rules
• The dynastic cult and the representation of the rulers in Egyptian temples
• 8 Berenike II
• Berenike's early years
• Berenike as a Ptolemaic basilissa
• Poetic images of Berenike II
• Regency and co-rule?
• 9 Royal women and Ptolemaic cults
• Arsinoë II - the religious role model of the deified basilissa
• Arsinoë - a new Greek goddess in Alexandria and beyond
• Arsinoë: becoming an Egyptian goddess
• Berenike II - the political role model of Ptolemaic female pharaohs
• The Kleopatras
• 10 Ptolemaic women's patronage of the arts
• Ptolemaic patronage: gendered strategies of representation
• Berenike I
• Arsinoë II and Berenike II
• Arsinoë III
• 11 The Kleopatra problem: Roman sources and a female Ptolemaic ruler
• Kleopatra and Caesar
• In Rome
• Back in Alexandria
• Kleopatra and Mark Antony
• The eastern "land grants"
• The Parthian Campaign
• Celebrating the Armenian victory
• The war against Octavian
• The battle of Actium
• Showdown in Egypt
• Suicide
• Conclusions
• Part III The ancient Near East
• 12 Invisible Mesopotamian royal women?
• Mesopotamian textual evidence
• Terminology
• Heavenly queens
• Ninsun-the loving mother
• Inanna/Ishtar-the dangerous lover
• Earthly queens
• Ku-Baba of Kish
• Enheduanna
• Sammu-ramat
• Naqi'a
• Adad-guppi
• 13 Achaimenid women
• Abbreviations.
• 14 Karian royal women and the creation of a royal identity
• 15 Seleukid women
• Apama, Seleukos I, and their progeny
• Stratonike and Antiochos I
• The clan of Achaios
• Laodike (2), Antiochos II Theos, and Berenike Phernophoros
• Split in the dynasty-the families of Seleukos II and Antiochos Hierax
• Laodike (5), Antiochos III, and their progeny
• Laodike (6) and (7): from Seleukos IV to Demetrios I (187-150)
• Kleopatra Thea and her royal consorts (150-121)
• The epilogue-in the shadow of Kleopatra Tryphaina and Selene
• 16 Apama and Stratonike: The first Seleukid basilissai
• Royal titles
• Early usages
• The title's benefits
• The basilissa's duties?
• Apama and Stratonike's legacy
• 17 Seleukid marriage alliances
• Antiochos I and Stratonike I
• Antiochos II and Laodike I
• Antiochos III and Laodike III
• 18 Royal mothers and dynastic power in Attalid Pergamon
• 19 Hasmonean women
• 20 Women at the Arsakid court
• Titles and ranks of Arsakid royal women and hierarchies at court
• Political influence of Arsakid royal women
• Mousa: an example of political influence?
• Arsakid marriage policy
• 21 Women of the Sassanid dynasty (224-651 CE)
• The sources
• The women of the early days of the dynasty
• Women of the fourth and fifth centuries
• The women of the Late Sassanian Period
• Conclusion: the position and scope of action of women of the Sassanid royal house
• 22 Zenobia of Palmyra
• The events: a summary
• Zenobia in context
• Zenobia and the women of Palmyra
• Part IV Greece and Macedonia
• 23 "Royal" women in the Homeric epics
• Homeric epics and Homeric society
• Before marriage: Polykaste and Nausikaa
• Inverted cases? Eumaios and Eurykleia
• Marriage: paternal decisions, marital presents, dowries
• Maturity: four literary heroines
• Conglomerate identities: Helena
• A background for Penelope: Klytaimnestra
• Outweighing the "king": Arete
• Managing crisis from the rear: Penelope
• Inside the seraglio: Trojan women
• Conclusion: no consistent sociology
• 24 Royal women in Greek tragedy
• Royal women in relation to the ruling authorities
• Monarchial heroines with executive power
• Monarchial heroines overthrowing executive power
• Monarchial heroines defying executive power
• Royal heroines challenging and deceiving the ruling authorities
• "Good wives" who make their stands against ruling authorities-who are also their husbands: Deianeira, Kreusa, Phaidra, ...
• The supreme woman-Helen's femininity versus ruling authorities
• Monarchial women fulfilling women's traditional roles
• Motherhood
• Lamenting the dead
• Relations with the gods
• 25 Argead women
• Missing titles, significant names
• Succession advocacy and polygamy
• Historical developments
• Argead women and war
• Argead widows
• 26 Women in Antigonid monarchy
• The Antigonids before Demetrios Poliorketes' loss of Macedonia in 288
• Reconstituted Antigonid rule, based in Macedonia.
• The growth of royal monogamy and the narrow presentation of Antigonid monarchy
• Basilissa and the ranking of royal wives
• Antigonid marriage alliances
• Wedding festivals
• Cults and royal women
• Euergetism and piety
• The sources and their significance
• Part V Commonalities
• 27 Transitional royal women: Kleopatra, sister of Alexander the Great, Adea Eurydike, and Phila
• Kleopatra
• Adea Eurydike
• Phila
• 28 Women and dynasty at the Hellenistic imperial courts
• Royal women and dynastic succession
• Dynastic marriage
• Royal women as power brokers
• 29 Royal brother-sister marriage, Ptolemaic and otherwise
• Royal brother-sister marriage: appendix
• Royal Hellenistic marriages closer than first cousin
• The Argeads
• The Ptolemies
• The Seleukids
• The Antigonids
• Epiros
• Pontos
• Kommagene
• 30 Jugate images in Ptolemaic and Julio-Claudian monarchy
• Sibling gods and mother-loving kings
• From Mark Antony to the Julio-Claudians
• Part VI Rome
• 31 Octavia Minor and patronage
• Biographical sketch
• Patronage
• Books
• Coins
• Portraits
• Portico
• 32 Livia and the principate of Augustus and Tiberius
• 33 Julio-Claudian imperial women
• Julia the Elder and Julia the Younger
• Agrippina the Elder
• Claudia Livia Julia
• Valeria Messalina
• Agrippina the Younger
• 34 The imperial women from the Flavians to the Severi.

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ISBN

• 0-429-78398-1
• 0-429-43410-3
• 0-429-78399-X

LCCN

2020019167

OCLC

1154099146

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