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Zusatztext A cornucopia of a book, brimming over with the fruits of deep research and perceptive reading. Informationen zum Autor Dee L. Clayman is Professor of Classics and Executive Officer of the PhD Program in Classics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Klappentext Berenice II (c. 264-221 BCE), daughter of King Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, came to embody all the key religious, political, and artistic ideals of Ptolemaic Alexandria. Though she arrived there nearly friendless, with the taint of murder around her, she became one of the most accomplished and powerful of the Macedonian queens descended from the successors of Alexander the Great. She was at the center of a group of important poets and intellectuals associated with the Museum and Library, not the least of which was Callimachus, the most important poet of the age. These men wrote poems not just for her, but about her, and their eloquent voices projected her charisma widely across the Greek-speaking world. Though the range of Berenice's interests was impressive and the quantity and quality of the poetry she inspired unparalleled, today she is all but known. Assimilating the scant and scattered evidence of her life, Dee L. Clayman presents a woman who was more powerful and fascinating than we had previously imagined. Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt offers a portrait of a woman who had access to the cultural riches of both Greece and Egypt and who navigated her way carefully through the opportunities and dangers they presented, ultimately using them to accrue unprecedented honors that were all but equal to those of the king. Zusammenfassung A sophisticated portrait of a formidable, yet relatively unknown, queen in the 200-year power struggle that followed the death of Alexander the Great. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Abbreviations The Family Tree of Berenice II Map of The Eastern Meditteranean in the 3rd Century BCE Introduction One. Birth in Cyrene Two. Arrival in Alexandria Three. Callimachus on Murder and Marriage Four. Apollonius on Murder and Marriage Five. Ruling and Racing Six. Berenice in Egypt and another Murder Appendix: Catullus 66 Notes Bibliography Index Index Locorum ...
