Cleopatra
Subtitle: a biography
By: Duane W. Roller.
Series: Women in antiquity
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195365535
Subjects: Cleopatra, -- Queen of Egypt, -- d. 30 B.C; Queens -- Egypt -- Biography; Egypt -- Kings and rulers -- Biography; Egypt -- History -- 332-30 B.C
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cleopatra's ancestry and background; title: The Ptolemaic heritage and the entanglement with Rome; title: Cleopatra's youth and education; title: Becoming queen (51-47 BC); title: Consolidating the empire (47-40 BC); title: The peak years (40-34 BC); title: The operation of the kingdom; title: Royal administration; title: The royal building program; title: Isis and Dionysos; title: Foreign policy and the matter of Herod the Great; title: Scholarship and culture at the court of Cleopatra; title: Downfall (34-30 BC); title: Outline of Cleopatra's life and career; title: Cleopatra's mother; title: Was Cleopatra a Roman citizen?; title: Some ancient literary descriptions of Cleopatra; title: Genealogy; title: The iconography of Cleopatra.