The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World

BIBLIOGRAPHIA IRANICA: Women and Monarchy in Ancient Iran. Notice of a New Book: Carney, Elizabeth Donnelly & Sabine Müller (eds.). 2021. The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

The post flags articles on royal Achemenid, Seleucid, Arcasid, and Sassanian women (all periods of interest for PaleoJudaica). But the book also has articles on royal women of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Macedonia, and Rome. There is an article by Lucinda Dirven on Zenobia of Palmyra and an article by Julia Wilker on Hasmonean women.

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