1st Edition

Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III

By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Alex McAuley Copyright 2023
290 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period is a cutting-edge exploration of ancient queenship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of the late Hellenistic world. This volume, the first full-length study of Kleopatra III and Kleopatra Thea and their careers as queens of Egypt and Syria, thoroughly examines the roles and ideology of royal daughters, wives,... Read more
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 Pentēkontaetia, Epilogue.

Biography

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.