Near Eastern Royalty and Rome, 100-30 Bc
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 1990
- Category
- Rome, General, Egypt
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487591212
- Publish Date
- Dec 1990
- List Price
- $51.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487592585
- Publish Date
- Dec 1990
- List Price
- $51.00
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Description
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.
About the author
Richard D. Sullivan was Professor of Classics and History at the University of Saskatchewan and Adjunct Professor of History at Simon Fraser University.