Cleopatras [electronic resource] / John Whitehorne.

Although there are many books written about the most famous Cleopatra, this is the only study in English devoted to her less well-known but equally illustrious namesakes. Cleopatras traces the turbulent lives and careers of these historically important women, examining in particular the earlier Mace...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Whitehorne, J. E. G. (John Edwin George)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
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Table of 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