Seleukid royal women : creation, representation and distortion of Hellenistic queenship in the Seleukid Empire / edited by Altay Coşkun and Alex McAuley.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Noble Women in China, Rome, and in-between -- A Prologue; Introduction; I Experimenting with the Role of the Royal Consort: the First Two Basilissai of the Seleukids; The Making of a Queen -- Seleukos Nikator and His Wives; Apama and Stratonike -- Marriage and Legitimacy; Seleukid Love and Power: Stratonike I; The Diplomacy of Seleukid Women: Apama and Stratonike; II Representation, Visibility and Distortion of Seleukid Queenship

Laodike I, Berenike Phernophoros, Dynastic Murders, and the Outbreak of the Third Syrian War (253-246 BC)The Fate of Kleopatra Tryphaina, or: Poetic Justice in Justin; Female Seleukid Portraits: Where Are They?; III Dynastic Intermarriage and Hellenistic Queenship in the Shadow of the Seleukids; Princess and Tigress: Apama of Kyrene; Marriage Diplomacy and the Political Role of Royal Women in the Seleukid Far East; 'The Heroic Company of My Forebears': the Ancestor Galleries of Antiochos I of Kommagene at Nemrut Daği and the Role of Royal Women in the Transmission of Hellenistic Kingship

A Dynasty without Women? The Hasmoneans between Jewish Traditions and Hellenistic InfluenceKleopatra Selene -- A Look at the Moon and Her Bright Side; Consolidated Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index Nominum; Index Rerum; Genealogical Tables Drafted by Alex McAuley; a) The Early Seleukids; b) The Late Seleukids; c) The Ptolemies; d) The Antigonids

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