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Author: Elizabeth Donnelly Carney (Professor of History, Carol K. Brown Endowed Scholar in Humanities, Professor of History, Carol K. Brown Endowed Scholar in Humanities, Clemson University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 16.00cm
Weight: 0.479kg
ISBN: 9780195365528
ISBN 10: 0195365526
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 28 March 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
<br> Although Arsinoe II was probably the most influential queen in Hellenistic history, hitherto there has been no full-scale biography of her in English. Elizabeth Carney has filled this gap with this masterful study that firmly places Arsinoe's remarkable life in the context of early Hellenistic Macedon and Ptolemaic Egypt. --Stanley M. Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles<p><br> Elizabeth Carney, the world's leading expert on royal women of the Hellenistic period, presents the first full-length English study of Arsinoe Philadelphus, sister and wife of Egypt's Sun-King, Ptolemy II. In this fascinating biography, Carney pieces together the rich and diverse evidence for a Ptolemaic Queen who takes second place only to the infamous Cleopatra VII. --Waldemar Heckel, University of Calgary<p><br>
The Hellenistic Age continues to fascinate. One of the latest, and best, books it's stimulated is Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon A Royal Life, by that fine fistorian Elizabeth Donnelly Carney... Parsing the propaganda, skilfully plugging the gaps in our tattered evidence, as compulsively readable as she's critically sharp, Carney offers us a work of high scholarship that's also a compulsive page-turner. Peter Green, The Times Literary Supplement An interesting and enriching book. Jean Bartels, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
An interesting and enriching book. * Jean Bartels, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * The Hellenistic Age continues to fascinate. One of the latest, and best, books it's stimulated is Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon A Royal Life, by that fine fistorian Elizabeth Donnelly Carney... Parsing the propaganda, skilfully plugging the gaps in our tattered evidence, as compulsively readable as she's critically sharp, Carney offers us a work of high scholarship that's also a compulsive page-turner. * Peter Green, The Times Literary Supplement *
Author Information
Elizabeth Donnelly Carney is Professor of History and Carol K. Brown Endowed Scholar in Humanities at Clemson University.
