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Seleukid royal women : creation, representation and distortion of Hellenistic queenship in the Seleukid Empire / edited by Altay Coşkun and Alex McAuley.
- Title
- Seleukid royal women : creation, representation and distortion of Hellenistic queenship in the Seleukid Empire / edited by Altay Coşkun and Alex McAuley.
- Publication
- Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 322 pages : illustrations (black and white), genealogical tables; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Historia : Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte = Revue d'histoire ancienne = Journal of ancient history = Rivista di storia antica. Einzelschriften ; Band 240
- Alte Geschichte
- Uniform Title
- Historia (Wiesbaden, Germany). Einzelschriften ; Heft 240.
- Alternative Title
- Creation, representation and distortion of Hellenistic queenship in the Seleukid Empire
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "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.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-303) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface & Acknowledgements / Altay Coşkun and Alex McAuley -- Noble Women in China, Rome, and in-between -- A Prologue / Hans Beck -- Introduction / Altay Coşkun and Alex McAuley -- I. Experimenting with the Role of Royal Consort: the First Two Basilissai 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 Coşkun -- 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.
- ISBN
- 9783515112956
- 3515112952
- 9783515112963
- 3515112960
- OCLC
- 949871194
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library