Description |
1 online resource (x, 243 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; FROM MYTH TO LEGEND The Earliest Cleopatras; CLEOPATRA, PERDICCAS II, AND ARCHELAUS; PHILIP II'S LAST WIFE; A DOUBLE MYSTERY; ALEXANDER'S SISTER; FROM AEGAE TO ALEXANDRIA; THE SELEUCID CONNECTION (1) Cleopatra I; CLEOPATRA II AND PTOLEMY VI; CLEOPATRA II AND PTOLEMY VIII; CLEOPATRA II, CLEOPATRA III, AND PTOLEMY VIII; CLEOPATRA III AND HER CHILDREN; THE SELEUCID CONNECTION (2) Cleopatra Thea and her Husbands; THE SELEUCID CONNECTION (3) Cleopatra Selene and the Last of the Seleucids |
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THE TWILIGHT OF THE PTOLEMIES Cleopatra Berenice III, Cleopatra V TryphaenaCLEOPATRA VII'S SUICIDE; THE END OF THE LINE Cleopatra Selene of Mauretania; APPENDIX 1: WHO'S WHO AMONG THE PTOLEMIES; APPENDIX 2: GENEALOGICAL TABLES; Notes; Select bibliography; Index |
Summary |
Although there are many books written about the most famous Cleopatra, this is the only study in English devoted to her less well-known but equally illustrious namesakes. Cleopatras traces the turbulent lives and careers of these historically important women, examining in particular the earlier Macedonian and Ptolemaic Cleopatras, and the impact of their dynastic marriages on the history of the Hellenistic world. John Whitehorne also evaluates current views of Cleopatra VII's dramatic suicide, and considers the evolving political significance of royal women in the last three cent |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Queens -- Middle East -- Biography
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Queens -- Macedonia -- Biography
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Queens
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Middle East -- History -- To 622.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090507
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Macedonia -- History -- To 168 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85079268
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Europe -- Macedonia
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Middle East
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Electronic books
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780203036082 |
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0203036085 |
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9780415058063 |
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0415058066 |
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9786610331383 |
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6610331383 |
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