TY - BOOK AU - McGill University AU - Coşkun,Altay AU - McAuley,Alex TI - Seleukid royal women: creation, representation and distortion of Hellenistic queenship in the Seleukid Empire T2 - Alte Geschichte SN - 9783515112963 AV - DS96 .S454 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Stuttgart PB - Franz Steiner Verlag KW - Seleucids KW - History KW - Congresses KW - Queens KW - Middle East KW - Women KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2182250&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -