Near Eastern Royalty and Rome, 100-30 Bc / / Richard D. Sullivan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Sullivan, Richard D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (576 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps, Illustrations, Stemmata -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- Part I: The First Generation of Conflict, 100-70 BC -- 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 -- Part II: The East in the Generation of Actium, 69-30 BC -- 6. Asia Minor in the Generation before Actium -- 7. The Levant -- 8. Egypt -- 9. Dynasties beyond the Euphrates -- Part III: The Royal East -- 10. The Eastern Dynastic Network -- 11. Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Phoenix Supplementary Volumes Series -- Stemmata