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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824669603321

Autore

Sullivan Richard D. <1936-1988, >

Titolo

Near Eastern royalty and Rome, 100-30 BC / / Richard D. Sullivan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1990

©1990

ISBN

9786612011511

1-4426-7759-7

1-282-01151-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (589 p.)

Collana

Phoenix : Supplementary Volume ; ; 24 = Tome supplementaire ; ; 24

Disciplina

939.4

Soggetti

Royal houses - Middle East - History

Middle East History To 622

Rome History Republic, 265-30 B.C

Middle East Kings and rulers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Illustrations, Stemmata -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. The Historical and Geographical Position of the Late Hellenistic Dynasties -- 2. Asia Minor and the Mithradatic Wars -- 3. The Levant -- 4. Egypt -- 5. Dynasties beyond the Euphrates, 100-69 BC -- 6. Asia Minor in the Generation before Actium -- 7. The Levant -- 8. Egypt -- 9. Dynasties beyond the Euphrates -- 10. The Eastern Dynastic Network -- 11. Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Phoenix Supplementary Volumes Series -- Stemmata

Sommario/riassunto

During the first century BC, the Near and Middle Easy saw a great transition from the Seleucid and Ptolemaic Empires, by way of the brief Pontic and Armenian Empires, to the triumphant Parthian and Roman Empires. Richard D. Sullivan offers a guide to the central role of royalty during this period. He provides, through narrative and citations, a context for the frequent references to Eastern kings and queens by Caesar, Cicero, Strabo, Josephus, Tacitus, Appian, Dio, and others. He also discusses related inscriptions, coins, and papyri. Sullivan focuses



on the personnel of the many dynasties which rules the Near and Middle East, from Thrace through Asia Minor and the Levant to Egypt, then eastward to Armenia, Mesopotamia, and Parthia. He studies such famous figures as Mithradates Eupator, Cleopatra, and Herod the Great as well as others now obscure. To ?locate? them properly, he provides a narrative history of each dynasty and draws them together in a coherent account of Eastern royal governance and its accommodations with Rome and Parthia.