![]() Roller opens the volume with an overview of the concept of queenship in classical antiquity, contextualizing the position that each woman was in in their respective families, before proceeding methodically through chronological overviews of their lives, deaths and legacies, and finally concluding with a discussion of the relationships between these women and their Roman counterparts Livia, Octavia, and Antonia Minor. Rather, it covers seven, all members of influential Eastern Mediterranean royal families during the Augustan Principate and the early years of the Julio-Claudian dynasty: Cleopatra Selene Glaphyra of Cappadocia Salome of Judaea Dynamis of Bosporos Pythodoris of Pontos Aba of Olbe and Mousa of Parthia. The latest volume in Oxford University Press' Women in Antiquity series is something of a departure from its predecessors in that it does not focus on one woman or even two women. ![]()
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