Contributor
Carney, Elizabeth Donnelly, 1947- editor.
ImprintLondon ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Descriptionxviii, 537 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Note:Part I. Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean -- Introduction to thinking about women and monarchy in the ancient world / Elizabeth D. Carney and Sabine Muller -- Part II. Egypt and the Nile Valley -- The King's Mother in Old and Middle Kingdoms / Lisa Sabbahy -- Regnant Women in Egypt / Martina Minas-Nerpal -- The Image of Nefertiti / Athena Van der Perre -- The God's Wife of Amun: Origins and Rise to Power / Mariam F. Ayad -- The Role and Status of Royal Women in Kush / Angelika Lohwasser -- Ptolemaic Royal Women / Anne Bielman Sanchez and Giuseppina Lenzo -- Berenike II / Sabine Müller -- Royal Women and Ptolemaic Cults / Stefan Pfeiffer -- Ptolemaic Women's Patronage of the Arts / Silvia Barbantani -- The Kleopatra Problem: Roman Sources and a Female Ptolemaic Ruler / Christoph Schäfer -- Part III. The Ancient Near East -- Invisible Mesopotamian Royal Women / Sebastian Fink -- Achaimenid Women / Maria Brosius -- Karian Royal Women and the Creation of a Royal Identity / Stephen Ruzicka -- Seleukid Women / Marek Jan Olbrycht -- Apama and Stratonike: the first Seleukid basilissai / Gillian Ramsey -- Seleukid Marriage Alliances / Monica d'Agostini -- Royal Mothers and Dynastic Power in Attalid Pergamon / Dolores Mirón -- Hasmonean Women / Julia Wilker -- Women at the Arsakid Court / Irene Madreiter and Udo Hartmann -- Women of the Sasanid Dynasty (224-651 CE) / Josef Wiesehöfer -- Zenobia of Palmyra / Lucinda Dirven -- Part IV. Greece and Macedonia -- "Royal" Women in the Homeric Epics / Johannes Heinrichs -- Royal Women in Greek Tragedy / Hanna M. Roisman -- Argead Women / Sabine Müller -- Women in Antigonid Monarchy / Elizabeth D. Carney -- Part V. Commonalities -- Transitional Royal Women: Kleopatra, sister of Alexander the Great, Adea Eurydike, and Phila / Elizabeth D. Carney -- Women and Dynasty and the Hellenistic Imperial Courts / Rolf Strootman -- Royal Brother-Sister marriage, Ptolemaic and otherwise / Sheila L. Ager -- Jugate Images in Ptolemaic and Julio-Claudian Monarchy / Dimitris Plantzos -- Part VI. Rome: Late Republic through Empire -- Octavia Minor and Patronage / Katrina Moore -- Livia and the Principate of Augustus and Tiberius / Christiane Kunst -- Julio-Claudian Imperial women / Francesca Cenerini -- The Imperial Women from the Flavians to the Severi / Kordula Schnegg -- Portraiture of Flavian imperial women / Annetta Alexandridis -- The Faustinas / Stefan Priwitzer -- Women in the Severan Dynasty / Riccardo Bertolazzi -- Women in the Family of Constantine / Michaela Dirschlmayer -- Part VII. Reception from Antiquity to Present Times -- Semiramis: Perception and Presentation of Female Power in an Oriental Garb / Brigitte Truschnegg -- Tanaquil and Tullia in Livy as Roman Caricatures of Greek Mythic and Historic Hellenistic Queens / Judith P. Hallett and Karen Klaiber Hersch -- Roman Empresses on Screen: an Epic Failure? / Anja Wieber.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
