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Author Whitehorne, J. E. G. (John Edwin George)

Title Cleopatras / John Whitehorne
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1994

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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
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
Subject Queens -- Middle East -- Biography
Queens -- Macedonia -- Biography
Queens
SUBJECT Middle East -- History -- To 622. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090507
Macedonia -- History -- To 168 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85079268
Subject Europe -- Macedonia
Middle East
Genre/Form Electronic books
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203036082
0203036085
9780415058063
0415058066
9786610331383
6610331383