ABSTRACT
This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title; role in succession; the situation of mothers, wives, and daughters of kings; regnant and co-regnant women; role in cult and in dynastic image; and examines a sampling of the careers of individual women while placing them within broader contexts. Written by an international group of experts, this collection is based on the assumption that women played a fundamental role in ancient monarchy, that they were part of, not apart from it, and that it is necessary to understand their role to understand ancient monarchies. This is a crucial resource for anyone interested in the role of women in antiquity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|7 pages
Women and monarchy in the ancient Mediterranean
part II|125 pages
Egypt and the Nile Valley
part III|133 pages
The ancient Near East
part IV|50 pages
Greece and Macedonia
part V|53 pages
Commonalities
chapter 27|12 pages
Transitional royal women
part VI|103 pages
Rome
part VII|40 pages
Reception from antiquity to present times