The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated,
from the latter half of the first century BC until the second
decade of the following century. Yet he shared the age with several
royal women who ruled parts of the Mediterranean world, in a
symbiotic relationship with Rome. This book is the first detailed
portrait of these remarkable women. Previous accounts of the period
have centered on Augustus or Rome's allied kings, with scant
attention to the women who ruled as their partners or on their own.
The most famous of these is Cleopatra Selene, the daughter of the
great Cleopatra VII of Egypt and her partner, the Roman magistrate
Marcus Antonius. Her very survival following Roman victory over her
mother's forces is itself noteworthy but she went on to rule
Mauretania (northwest Africa) with her husband for more than twenty
years. She even attempted to reconstitute her mother's legacy in
this remote region and, like her mother, was an ardent patron of
the arts and scholarship. Other women of note included in this book
are Pythodoris of Pontos, who ruled northern Asia Minor for forty
years, and Salome of Judaea, the sister of Herod the Great, who,
while never queen, exercised significant power for nearly half a
century. These and others-Glaphyra of Cappadocia, Dynamis of
Bosporos, Abe of Olbe, and Mousa of Parthia-were all part of the
interrelated dynasties of the Augustan Age. Their values and
attitudes toward rule directly affected the emergent Roman imperial
system, and their legacy survived for centuries through their
descendants and the goals of the royal women of Rome, such as Livia
and Octavia, the wife and sister of Augustus. Assimilating all of
the historical and archaeological evidence, Cleopatra's Daughter
recovers these extraordinary women from the dim shadows of the
ancient past.
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