Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life (Women in Antiquity)

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The life of Arsinoë II (c. 316-c.270 BCE), daughter of the founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty, is characterized by dynastic intrigue. Her marriage to her full brother Ptolemy II, king of Egypt, was once the first of the sibling marriages that became a dynastic feature of the Ptolemies. With Ptolemy II, she ended her days in great wealth and power. Then again, prior to that point she was once forced to endure two tumultuous marriages, either one of which led her to flee for her life. Arsinoë was once the model for the powerful role Ptolemaic women progressively acquired as co-rulers of their empire, and her image continued to play a role in dynastic solidarity for centuries to come. Despite the fact that Arsinoë was once the pivotal figure in the eventual evolution of regnal power for Ptolemaic women–and regardless of a considerable body of latest scholarship across many fields relevant to her life–there was no up-to-date biography in English of her life. Elizabeth Donnelly Carney, in sifting through the to be had archaeological and literary evidence, offers here an accessible and reasoned portrait. In describing Arsinoë’s significant role in the courts of Thrace and Alexandria, Carney weaves discussions of earlier Macedonian royal women, the institution of sibling marriage, and the reasons for its longstanding success in Hellenistic Egypt, in the end providing an expansive view of this integral Hellenistic figure.

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