Sister Queens In The High Hellenistic Period

Author : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,Alex McAuley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351797443

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Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,Alex McAuley Pdf

Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period is a cutting-edge exploration of ancient queenship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of the late Hellenistic world. This volume, the first full-length study of Kleopatra III and Kleopatra Thea and their careers as queens of Egypt and Syria, thoroughly examines the roles and ideology of royal daughters, wives, and queens in Egypt, the ancient Near East, and ancient Israel and provides a comprehensive study of the iconography, public image, and titles of each queen and their cultural precedents. In addition, this book also offers an introduction to the critical concept of the ‘High Hellenistic Period’ and the maturation of royal female power in the second century BCE. Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period is suitable for students and scholars in ancient history, Egyptology, classics, and gender studies, as well as the general reader interested in ancient queenship, ancient Egypt, the Hellenistic world, and gender in antiquity.

Author : Delfim Leão,Daniela Ferreira,Nuno Simões Rodrigues,Rui Morais
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803271712

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Our Beloved Polites: Studies presented to P.J. Rhodes by Delfim Leão,Daniela Ferreira,Nuno Simões Rodrigues,Rui Morais Pdf

Twenty-eight contributions pay tribute to one of the most remarkable historians of ancient Greece, Professor P. J. Rhodes, to celebrate his life and work which has been and will continue to be a major reference for scholars around the world. The volume is organised in four sections: History and Biography, Law, Politics, and Epigraphy.

Author : Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides,Stefan Pfeiffer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110755626

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Culture and Ideology under the Seleukids by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides,Stefan Pfeiffer Pdf

The volume offers a timely (re-)appraisal of Seleukid cultural dynamics. While the engagement of Seleukid kings with local populations and the issue of “Hellenization” are still debated, a movement away from the Greco-centric approach to the study of the sources has gained pace. Increasingly textual sources are read alongside archaeological and numismatic evidence, and relevant near-eastern records are consulted. Our study of Seleukid kingship adheres to two game-changing principles: 1. We are not interested in judging the Seleukids as “strong” or “weak” whether in their interactions with other Hellenistic kingdoms or with the populations they ruled. 2. While appreciating the value of the social imaginaries approach (Stavrianopoulou, 2013), we argue that the use of ethnic identity in antiquity remains problematic. Through a pluralistic approach, in line with the complex cultural considerations that informed Seleukid royal agendas, we examine the concept of kingship and its gender aspects; tensions between centre and periphery; the level of “acculturation” intended and achieved under the Seleukids; the Seleukid-Ptolemaic interrelations. As rulers of a multi-cultural empire, the Seleukids were deeply aware of cultural politics.

Author : K. R. Moore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000626193

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The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality by K. R. Moore Pdf

This Companion covers a range of receptions of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. It explores ancient representations of these concepts as we define them today, as well as recent perspectives that have been projected back onto antiquity. Beginning in antiquity, the chapters examine how the ancient Greeks and Romans regarded concepts of what we would today call "gender" and "sexuality" based on the evidence available to us, and chart the varied interpretations and receptions of these concepts across time to the present day. In exploring how different cultures have "received" the classical past, the volume investigates these cultures’ different interpretations of Greek and Roman sexualities, and what these interpretations can reveal about their own attitudes. Through the contributions in this book, the reader gains a deeper understanding of this essential part of human existence, derived from influential sources. From ancient to modern and postmodern perspectives, from cinematic productions to TikTok videos, receptions of ancient gender and sexuality abound. This volume is of interest to students and scholars of ancient history, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and ancient societies, as well as those working on popular culture and gender studies more broadly.

Author : Daniel Ogden
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781914535406

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Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death by Daniel Ogden Pdf

The hellenistic royal families, from Alexander the Great to the last Cleopatra, took part in dynastic in-fighting that was vicious, colourful and instructive. In this they anticipated by centuries the better known excesses under Roman potentates such as Claudius and Nero. This new enhanced and revised edition of a major study explores the intricate quarrels and violence within the ruling hellenistic families. A main theme is the role of 'amphimetric' disputes, competition between a ruler's offspring from different women, and especially between the women themselves. The book also includes a full exploration of the role of courtesans in the political and sexual intrigues of the hellenistic courts.

Author : Richard Evans,Martine De Marre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429803031

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Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity by Richard Evans,Martine De Marre Pdf

Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity explores appropriation in its broadest terns in the ancient world, from brigands, mercenaries and state-sponsored "piracy", to literary appropriation and the modern plundering of antiquities. The chronological extent of the studies in this volume, written by an international group of experts, ranges from about 2000 BCE to the 20th century. The geographical spectrum in similarly diverse, encompassing Africa, the Mediterranean, and Mesopotamia, allowing readers to track this phenomenon in various different manifestations. Predatory behaviour is a phenomenon seen in all walks of life. While violence may often be concomitant it is worth observing that predation can be extremely nuanced in its application, and it is precisely this gradation and its focus that occupies the essential issue in this volume. Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity will be of great interest to those studying a range of topics in antiquity, including literature and art, cities and their foundations, crime, warfare, and geography.

Author : Regina M. M. Loehr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003835165

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Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories by Regina M. M. Loehr Pdf

This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius’ conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history. How and why did ancient historians include emotions in their texts? This book argues that in the Histories of Polybius – the Greek historian who recorded Rome’s rise to dominion in the ancient Mediterranean – emotions play an effective role in history, used by the historian to explain the causes of actions, connect events, and make sense of human behavior. Through analysis of the emotions in the narrative and theory of Polybius’ Histories using critical terminology and frameworks from modern philosophy, psychology, and political science, this work calls into question assumptions that emotions were purely irrational and detrimental in ancient history, politics, and historiography. Emotions often positively shape Polybius’ historical narrative, provide criteria for the success and morality of agents, actions, and even historians, and aid the historian in guiding readers to become intelligent leaders and citizens of a new world centered on Rome. Emotion and Historiography in Polybius’ Histories is a fascinating read for students and scholars of ancient historiography and history, as well as those working on ancient political thought, emotions in the ancient Greek world, and emotion in history and literature more broadly.

Author : Andrew Erskine,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,Shane Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Courts and courtiers
ISBN : 1910589624

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The Hellenistic Court by Andrew Erskine,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,Shane Wallace Pdf

Hellenistic courts were centres of monarchic power, social prestige and high culture in the kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander. They were places of refinement, learning and luxury, and also of corruption, rivalry and murder. Surrounded by courtiers of varying loyalty, Hellenistic royal families played roles in a theatre of spectacle and ceremony. Architecture, art, ritual and scholarship were deployed to defend the existence of their dynasties. The present volume, from a team of international experts, examines royal methods and ideologies. It treats the courts of the Ptolemies, Seleucids, Attalids, Antigonids and of lesser dynasties. It also explores the influence, on Greek-speaking courts, of non- Greek culture, of Achaemenid and other Near Eastern royal institutions. It studies the careers of courtesans, concubines and 'friends' of royalty, and the intellectual, ceremonial, and artistic world of the Greek monarchies. The work demonstrates the complexity and motivations of Hellenistic royal civilisation, of courts which governed the transmission of Greek culture to the wider Mediterranean world - and to later ages.

Author : Grace Harriet Macurdy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019993917

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Hellenistic Queens by Grace Harriet Macurdy Pdf

Author : Elena Woodacre,Lucinda H.S. Dean,Chris Jones,Zita Rohr,Russell Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1093 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351787307

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The Routledge History of Monarchy by Elena Woodacre,Lucinda H.S. Dean,Chris Jones,Zita Rohr,Russell Martin Pdf

The Routledge History of Monarchy draws together current research across the field of royal studies, providing a rich understanding of the history of monarchy from a variety of geographical, cultural and temporal contexts. Divided into four parts, this book presents a wide range of case studies relating to different aspects of monarchy throughout a variety of times and places, and uses these case studies to highlight different perspectives of monarchy and enhance understanding of rulership and sovereignty in terms of both concept and practice. Including case studies chosen by specialists in a diverse array of subjects, such as history, art, literature, and gender studies, it offers an extensive global and interdisciplinary approach to the history of monarchy, providing a thorough insight into the workings of monarchies within Europe and beyond, and comparing different cultural concepts of monarchy within a variety of frameworks, including social and religious contexts. Opening up the discussion of important questions surrounding fundamental issues of monarchy and rulership, The Routledge History of Monarchy is the ideal book for students and academics of royal studies, monarchy, or political history.

Author : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541602939

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The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Pdf

The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name. In The Cleopatras, historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells the dramatic story of these seven incomparable women, vividly recapturing the lost world of Hellenistic Egypt and tracing the kingdom’s final centuries before its fall to Rome. The Cleopatras were Greek-speaking descendants of Ptolemy, the general who conquered Egypt alongside Alexander the Great. They were closely related as mothers, daughters, sisters, half-sisters, and nieces. Each wielded absolute power, easily overshadowing their husbands or sons, and all proved to be shrewd and capable leaders. Styling themselves as goddess-queens, the Cleopatras ruled through the canny deployment of arcane rituals, opulent spectacles, and unparalleled wealth. They navigated political turmoil and court intrigues, led armies into battle and commanded fleets of ships, and ruthlessly dispatched their dynastic rivals. The Cleopatras is a fascinating and richly textured biography of seven extraordinary women, restoring these queens to their deserved place among history’s greatest rulers.

Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814322301

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Women in Hellenistic Egypt by Sarah B. Pomeroy Pdf

Using evidence from a wide array of sources, Sarah Pomeroy discusses women ranging from queens such as Arsinoë II and Cleopatra VII to Jewish slaves working on a Greek estate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1914535367

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Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World by Anonim Pdf

The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's history has been little studied. In this collection of new studies by an international team, ancient visual evidence from vase-painting and sculpture is used extensively alongside Greek literature to reconstruct how women of the Greek world were perceived, and also, in important ways, how they lived.

Author : Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Wildfire
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 147229517X

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The Cleopatras by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Pdf

A remarkable insight into the real story of the seven Queen Cleopatras of Ancient Egypt[Bokinfo].

Author : Grace Harriet MACURDY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:562413413

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Hellenistic Queens. A Study of Woman-power in Macedonia, Seleucid Syria, and Ptolemaic Egypt by Grace Harriet MACURDY Pdf