Description: Cleopatra's Daughter : And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era, Paperback by Roller, Duane W., ISBN 0197604153, ISBN-13 9780197604151, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the following century. Yet he shared the age with several royal women who ruled parts of the Mediterranean world, in a symbiotic relationship with Rome.
This book is the first detailed portrait of these remarkable women. Previous accounts of the period have centered on Augustus or Romes allied kings, with scant attention to the women who ruled as their partners or on their own.
The most famous of these is Cleopatra Selene, the daughter of the great Cleopatra VII of Egypt and her partner, the Roman magistrate Marcus Antonius. Her very survival following Roman victory over her mothers forces is itself noteworthy but she went on to rule Mauretania (northwest Africa) with her
husband for more than twenty years. She even attempted to reconstitute her mothers legacy in this remote region and, like her mother, was an ardent patron of the arts and scholarship. Other women of note included in this book are Pythodoris of Pontos, who ruled northern Asia Minor for forty years,
and Salome of Judaea, the sister of Herod the Great, who, while never queen, exercised significant power for nearly half a century. These and others--Glaphyra of Cappadocia, Dynamis of Bosporos, Abe of Olbe, and Mousa of Parthia-were all part of the interrelated dynasties of the Augustan Age. Their
values and attitudes toward rule directly affected the emergent Roman imperial system, and their legacy survived for centuries through their descendants and the goals of the royal women of Rome, such as Livia and Octavia, the wife and sister of Augustus. Assimilating all of the historical and
archaeological evidence, Cleopatras Daughter recovers these extraordinary women from the dim shadows of the ancient past.
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Book Title: Cleopatra's Daughter : And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Cleopatra's Daughter : and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Europe / Italy, Ancient
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 11.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.5 in
Subject Area: Religion, History
Author: Duane W. Roller
Series: Women in Antiquity Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
