Berenice II (c. 264-221 BCE), daughter of King Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, came to embody all the key religious, political, and artistic ideals of Ptolemaic Alexandria. Though she arrived there nearly friendless, with the taint of murder around her, she became one of the most accomplished and powerful of the Macedonian queens descended from the successors of Alexander the Great. She was at the center of a group of important poets and intellectuals associated with the Mu..
One of the more striking features of the Hellenistic period is the emergence of royal dynasties whos...
The historical-political context of Cyrene around the mid-3rd century BC highlights the central ro...
Without its dominant queens, the Ptolemaic dynasty would have been less significant and probably muc...
A sophisticated portrait of a formidable, yet relatively unknown, queen in the 200-year power strugg...
peer reviewedFollowing the death of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian Ptolemies ruled Ancient Egyp...
According to the authors of this study, three elements are fundamental to analyze the political stat...
Although there is no explicit evidence of queen patronage in the first generations of Ptolemies, the...
The concept of woman-power existing in the highest circles of society in the Mediterranean world is...
The contribution focuses on Cleopatra I, daughter of the Seleucid king Antiochos III and wife of the...
In the 3rd century the Seleukids faced the first significant fracture in the dynasty. This dynastic ...
This paper focuses on two queens who lived and ruled on the periphery of the Roman world: Cleopatra ...
Second wife of the Seleucid king Antiochos II Theos, Berenike was the daughter of Ptolemy II Philade...
Celem pracy jest przedstawienie sylwetek trzech królowych z dynastii Ptolemeuszy - Arsinoe II, Beren...
Phillip II and his son Alexander the Great created the Macedonian empire that stretched from the Dan...
Cleopatra Thea Eueteria (ca. 164–121 bce), second child of Ptolemy VI Philometor and Cleopatra II, w...
One of the more striking features of the Hellenistic period is the emergence of royal dynasties whos...
The historical-political context of Cyrene around the mid-3rd century BC highlights the central ro...
Without its dominant queens, the Ptolemaic dynasty would have been less significant and probably muc...
A sophisticated portrait of a formidable, yet relatively unknown, queen in the 200-year power strugg...
peer reviewedFollowing the death of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian Ptolemies ruled Ancient Egyp...
According to the authors of this study, three elements are fundamental to analyze the political stat...
Although there is no explicit evidence of queen patronage in the first generations of Ptolemies, the...
The concept of woman-power existing in the highest circles of society in the Mediterranean world is...
The contribution focuses on Cleopatra I, daughter of the Seleucid king Antiochos III and wife of the...
In the 3rd century the Seleukids faced the first significant fracture in the dynasty. This dynastic ...
This paper focuses on two queens who lived and ruled on the periphery of the Roman world: Cleopatra ...
Second wife of the Seleucid king Antiochos II Theos, Berenike was the daughter of Ptolemy II Philade...
Celem pracy jest przedstawienie sylwetek trzech królowych z dynastii Ptolemeuszy - Arsinoe II, Beren...
Phillip II and his son Alexander the Great created the Macedonian empire that stretched from the Dan...
Cleopatra Thea Eueteria (ca. 164–121 bce), second child of Ptolemy VI Philometor and Cleopatra II, w...
One of the more striking features of the Hellenistic period is the emergence of royal dynasties whos...
The historical-political context of Cyrene around the mid-3rd century BC highlights the central ro...
Without its dominant queens, the Ptolemaic dynasty would have been less significant and probably muc...