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QUEENSHIP AND POWER Series Editors: Carole Levin and Charles Beem This series brings together monographs, edited volumes, and textbooks from scholars specializing in gender analysis, women’s studies, literary interpretation, and cultural, political, constitutional, and diplomatic history. It aims to broaden our understanding of the strategies that queens—both consorts and regnants, as well as female regents— pursued in order to wield political power within the structures of male-dominant soci- eties. In addition to works describing European queenship, it also includes books on queenship as it appeared in other parts of the world, such as East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Islamic civilization. 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Kinney and Jane A. Lawson Elizabeth I’s Foreign Correspondence: Letters, Rhetoric, and Politics Edited by Carlo M. Bajetta, Guillaume Coatalen, and Jonathan Gibson The Man behind the Queen: Male Consorts in History Edited by Charles Beem and Miles Taylor Berenice II Euergetis: Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship By Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter This page intentionally left blank B II E ERENICE UERGETIS E E H SSAYS IN ARLY ELLENISTIC Q UEENSHIP Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter BERENICE II EUERGETIS Copyright © Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter, 2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-49461-0 All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-69735-9 ISBN 978-1-137-49462-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137494627 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Oppen de Ruiter, Branko F. van, 1970– author. Berenice II Euergetis : essays in early hellinistic queenship / Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter. pages cm—(Queenship and power) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Berenice, Queen, consort of Ptolemy III, King of Egypt, approximately 270 B.C.–221 B.C. 2. Berenice, Queen, consort of P tolemy III, King of Egypt, approximately 270 B.C.–221 B.C.—Influence. 3. Queens—Egypt—Biography. 4. Ptolemy III Euergetes, King of Egypt, -221 B.C.—Marriage. 5. Egypt—Kings and rulers—Biography. 6. Power (Social sciences)—Egypt—History—To 1500. 7. Women— Political activity—Egypt—History—To 1500. 8. Ptolemaic dynasty, 305 B.C.–30 B.C. 9. Egypt—Civilization—332 B.C.–638 A.D. I. Title. DT92.O67 2015 932.021092—dc23 2015000097 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: July 2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Wim de Ruiter who liked to watch the stars This page intentionally left blank C ONTENTS List of Plates, Figure, and Tables xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1 Magas, Apame, and Berenice II 7 2 The Marriage of Ptolemy III and Berenice II 23 3 Berenice II in Art and Artifacts 41 4 Astronomy and Ideology in the Coma Berenices 71 Conclusion 117 Appendices 131 Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.7.1–3 131 Text and Translation of the Coma Berenices 133 Lunar Phases 246–245 BCE 144 Time Table, 323–221 BCE 146 Notes 149 Bibliography 201 Index 229
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