Roller, Duane W.,

Cleopatra's daughter : and other royal women of the Augustan Era / Duane W. Roller. - xi, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. - Women in antiquity .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-195) and index.

Queens and royal women -- Cleopatra's daughter -- Glaphyra of Cappadocia -- Salome of Judaea -- Dynamis of Bosporos -- Pythodoris of Pontos -- Abe of Olbe and Mousa of Parthia -- Royal women and Roman women.

"This is the first study of the royal women who ruled in the Mediterranean in the latter first century BC, in a symbiotic relationship with the Roman government. Several are discussed, with the most prominent Cleopatra Selene (the daughter of the famous Cleopatra VII of Egypt) and Salome, the sister of Herod the Great"--

9780190618827 (cloth : alk. paper)

2017049332


Queens--Mediterranean Region--Biography.


Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.
Rome--History--Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.

D107.3 / .R65 2018

939.4/0509252