Cleopatras / John Whitehorne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitehorne, J. E. G. (John Edwin George)

Whitehorne J Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Queens--Middle East--Biography.

Queens.

Queens--Macedonia--Biography.

Middle East--History--To 622.

Middle East.

Macedonia--History--To 168 B.C.

Macedonia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation Traces the turbulent lives of the famous Cleopatra's historically important namesakes, and considers the growing political significance of royal women in the last three centuries B.C.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; FROM MYTH TO LEGEND The Earliest Cleopatras; CLEOPATRA, PERDICCAS II, AND ARCHELAUS; PHILIP II'S LAST WIFE; A DOUBLE MYSTERY; ALEXANDER'S SISTER; FROM AEGAE TO ALEXANDRIA; THE SELEUCID CONNECTION (1) Cleopatra I; CLEOPATRA II AND PTOLEMY VI; CLEOPATRA II AND PTOLEMY VIII; CLEOPATRA II, CLEOPATRA III, AND PTOLEMY VIII; CLEOPATRA III AND HER CHILDREN; THE SELEUCID CONNECTION (2) Cleopatra Thea and her Husbands; THE SELEUCID CONNECTION (3) Cleopatra Selene and the Last of the Seleucids

THE TWILIGHT OF THE PTOLEMIES Cleopatra Berenice III, Cleopatra V TryphaenaCLEOPATRA VII'S SUICIDE; THE END OF THE LINE Cleopatra Selene of Mauretania; APPENDIX 1: WHO'S WHO AMONG THE PTOLEMIES; APPENDIX 2: GENEALOGICAL TABLES; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232) and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-134-93215-4

1-134-93216-2

1-280-33138-0

0-203-31745-9

0-203-03608-5

9780203036082

OCLC:

191031517