Near Eastern royalty and Rome, 100-30 BC / Richard D. Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Richard D., 1936-1988, author.

Series:

Phoenix. Supplementary volume ; 24.

Phoenix : Supplementary Volume ; 24 = Tome supplementaire ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Royal houses--Middle East--History.

Royal houses.

Middle East--History--To 622.

Middle East.

Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C.

Rome.

Middle East--Kings and rulers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (589 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the first century BC, the Near and Middle Easy saw a great transition from the Seleucid and Ptolemaic Empires, by way of the brief Pontic and Armenian Empires, to the triumphant Parthian and Roman Empires. Richard D. Sullivan offers a guide to the central role of royalty during this period. He provides, through narrative and citations, a context for the frequent references to Eastern kings and queens by Caesar, Cicero, Strabo, Josephus, Tacitus, Appian, Dio, and others. He also discusses related inscriptions, coins, and papyri. Sullivan focuses on the personnel of the many dynasties which rules the Near and Middle East, from Thrace through Asia Minor and the Levant to Egypt, then eastward to Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Parthia. He studies such famous figures as Mithradates Eupator, Cleopatra, and Herod the Great as well as others now obscure. To ?locate? them properly, he provides a narrative history of each dynasty and draws them together in a coherent account of Eastern royal governance and its accommodations with Rome and Parthia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps, Illustrations, Stemmata

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Maps

Introduction

1. The Historical and Geographical Position of the Late Hellenistic Dynasties

2. Asia Minor and the Mithradatic Wars

3. The Levant

4. Egypt

5. Dynasties beyond the Euphrates, 100-69 BC

6. Asia Minor in the Generation before Actium

7. The Levant

8. Egypt

9. Dynasties beyond the Euphrates

10. The Eastern Dynastic Network

11. Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Phoenix Supplementary Volumes Series

Stemmata

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612011511

1-4426-7759-7

1-282-01151-0

OCLC:

244766991