Seleukid royal women : creation, representation and distortion of Hellenistic queenship in the Seleukid Empire / edited by Altay Cosʹkun and Alex McAuley.
Publisher:
Franz Steiner Verlag,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
322 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 cm.
"The present volume assembles selected papers from the workshop Seleukid royal women : roles, representations, and expectations, which comprised the fourth iteration of the Seleukid Study Day series"--page 11. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Kleopatra Selene -- A Look at the Moon and Her Bright Side / Adian G. Dumitru. Noble Women in China, Rome, and in-between -- A Prologue / Hans Beck -- Introduction / Altay Cosʹkun and Alex McAuley -- III. Dynastic Intermarriage and Hellenistic Queenship in the Shadow of the Seleukids. The Making of a Queen -- Seleukos Nikator and His Wives / Ann-Cathrin Harders -- Apama and Stratonike -- Marriage and Legitimacy / David Engels & Kyle Erickson -- Seleukid Love and Power: Stratonike I / Eran Almagor -- The Diplomacy of Seleukid Women: Apama and Stratonike / Gillian Ramsey -- II. Representation, Visibility and Distortion of Seleukid Queenship. Laodike I, Berenike Phernophoros, Dynastic Murders, and the Outbreak of the Third Syrian War (253-246 BC) / Altay Cosʹkun -- The Fate of Kleopatra Tryphaina, or: Poetic Justice in Justin / Brett Bartlett -- Female Seleukid Portraits: Where Are They? / Sheila Ager & Craig Hardiman -- III. Dynastic Intermarriage and Hellenistic Queenship in the Shadow of the Seleukids. Princes & Tigress: Apama of Kyrene / Alex McAuley -- Marriage Diplomacy and the Political Role of Royal Women in the Seleukid Far East / Richard Wenghofer & Del John Houle -- 'The Heroic Company of My Forebears': the Ancestor Galleries of Antiochus I of Kommagene at Hemrut Dagi and the Role of Royal Women in the Transmission of Hellenistic Kingship / Rolf Strootman -- A Dynasty without Woment? The Hasmoneans between Jewish Traditions and Hellenistic Influence / Julia Wilker -- Kleopatra Selene -- A Look at the Moon and Her Bright Side / Adian G. Dumitru.
Series:
Historia. Einzelschriften, ßx 0341-0056 ; Band 240 Alte Geschichte
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