Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt (Women in by Dee L. Clayman PDF

By Dee L. Clayman

ISBN-10: 0195370880

ISBN-13: 9780195370881

ISBN-10: 0195370899

ISBN-13: 9780195370898

Berenice II (c. 264-221 BCE), daughter of King Magas of Cyrene and spouse of Ptolemy III Euergetes, got here to embrace the entire key non secular, political, and inventive beliefs of Ptolemaic Alexandria. notwithstanding she arrived there approximately friendless, with the taint of homicide round her, she grew to become some of the most complete and robust of the Macedonian queens descended from the successors of Alexander the good. She was once on the heart of a gaggle of vital poets and intellectuals linked to the Museum and Library, no longer the least of which used to be Callimachus, an important poet of the age. those males wrote poems not only for her, yet approximately her, and their eloquent voices projected her air of secrecy greatly around the Greek-speaking global. even though the diversity of Berenice's pursuits was once amazing and the amount and caliber of the poetry she encouraged extraordinary, this present day she is all yet identified. Assimilating the scant and scattered facts of her lifestyles, Dee L. Clayman provides a girl who was once extra strong and engaging than we had formerly imagined. Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt offers a portrait of a girl who had entry to the cultural riches of either Greece and Egypt and who navigated her method conscientiously in the course of the possibilities and hazards they awarded, finally utilizing them to accrue unheard of honors that have been all yet equivalent to these of the king.

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