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

ISBN-13: 9781138358843 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 538 str.

Elizabeth Carney; Sabine Müller

Opis

This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean.

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?