The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World

ISBN-13: 9780367560256 / Angielski

Elizabeth D. Carney; Sabine M?ller

Opis

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; and examines 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 of, 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.

Recenzje

"Whilst biographies of individual queens and treatments of their various dynastic families have at last come more into vogue in the new millennium, this is the first book to establish a comprehensive and fully comparative perspective on the royal women of the Ancient East Mediterranean as a larger phenomenon. Elizabeth D. Carney and Sabine Müller have assembled an international team of contributors from leading scholars in their sundry fields. These now supply authoritative accounts of the different dynasties and of the more prominent individual figures amongst them, whilst adopting an admirably diverse series of intellectual approaches…. The volume is presented in an open and engaging style that renders it not only useful for specialists but also accessible and interesting for undergraduates and general readers." - Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter, UK

"The work will be the first comprehensive treatment of ancient royal women and their role in the ancient Mediterranean. Especially welcome is the inclusion of such states as Caria, Kush, Palmyra, and the Parthians, which are often ignored in such works. Second, and equally important, the analysis of royal women is firmly located in the context of the institution of monarchy with a clear recognition of the varied forms monarchy took in the ancient Mediterranean world. The editors have assembled an excellent team of authors, which ensures that the chapters will be of high quality… This is an excellent project, and the resulting volume will be a valuable contribution to scholarship on ancient Mediterranean monarchy." - Stanley M. Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

Spis treści

Part I: Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean  1. Introduction to thinking about women and monarchy in the ancient world  Part II: Egypt and the Nile Valley  2. The King’s Mother in Old and Middle Kingdoms  3. Regnant Women in Egypt  4. The Image of Nefertiti  5. The God’s Wife of Amun: Origins and Rise to Power  6. The Role and Status of Royal Women in Kush  7. Ptolemaic Royal Women  8. Berenike II  9. Royal Women and Ptolemaic Cults  10. Ptolemaic Women’s Patronage of the Arts  11. The Kleopatra Problem: Roman sources and a female Ptolemaic ruler  Part III: The Ancient Near East  12. Invisible Mesopotamian Royal Women?  13. Achaimenid Women  14. Karian Royal Women and the Creation of a Royal Identity  15. Seleukid Women  16. Apama and Stratonike: the first Seleukid basilissai  17. Seleukid Marriage Alliances  18. Royal Mothers and Dynastic Power in Attalid Pergamon  19. Hasmonean Women  20. Women at the Arsakid Court  21. Women of the Sasanid Dynasty (224-651 CE)  22. Zenobia of Palmyra  Part IV: Greece and Macedonia  23. "Royal" Women in the Homeric Epics  24. Royal Women in Greek Tragedy  25. Argead Women  26. Women in Antigonid Monarchy  Part V: Commonalities  27. Transitional Royal Women: Kleopatra, sister of Alexander the Great, Adea Eurydike, and Phila  28. Women and Dynasty and the Hellenistic Imperial Courts  29. Royal Brother-Sister marriage, Ptolemaic and otherwise  30. Jugate Images in Ptolemaic and Julio-Claudian Monarchy  Part VI: Rome: Late Republic through Empire  31. Octavia Minor and Patronage  32. Livia and the Principate of Augustus and Tiberius  33. Julio-Claudian Imperial women  34. The Imperial Women from the Flavians to the Severi  35. Portraiture of Flavian imperial women  36. The Faustinas  37. Women in the Severan Dynasty  38. Women in the Family of Constantine  Part VII: Reception from Antiquity to Present Times  39. Semiramis: Perception and Presentation of Female Power in an Oriental Garb  40. Tanaquil and Tullia in Livy as Roman Caricatures of Greek Mythic and Historic Hellenistic Queens  41. Roman Empresses on Screen: an Epic Failure?

O autorze

Elizabeth D. Carney is Professor of History and Carol K. Brown Scholar in the Humanities, Emerita, at Clemson University, USA. Her focus has been on Macedonian and Hellenistic monarchy and the role of royal women in monarchy, most recently in Molossia. She has written Women and Monarchy in Ancient Macedonia (2000), Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great (2006), Arsinoë of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life (2013), and Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (2019). Some of her articles dealing with monarchy, with new afterwords, are collected in King and Court in Ancient Macedonia: Rivalry, Treason and Conspiracy (2015).

Sabine Müller is Professor of Ancient History at Marburg University, Germany. Her research focuses on the Persian empire, Argead Macedonia, the Hellenistic empires, Macedonian royal women, Lukian, and reception studies. Her publications include the monographs Das hellenistische Königspaar in der medialen Repräsentation. Ptolemaios II. und Arsinoë II. (2009), Perdikkas II. – Retter Makedoniens (2017), and Alexander der Große. Eroberung – Politik – Rezeption (2019).