Table Of ContentQUEENSHIP 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.
Editorial Board
Linda Darling, University of Arizona (Ottoman Empire)
Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University (Spain)
Dorothy Ko, Barnard College (China)
Nancy Kollman, Stanford University (Russia)
John Thornton, Boston University (Africa and the Atlantic World)
John Watkins (France and Italy)
Published by Palgrave Macmillan
The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History
By Charles Beem
Elizabeth of York
By Arlene Naylor Okerlund
Learned Queen: The Image of Elizabeth I in Politics and Poetry
By Linda Shenk
“High and Mighty Queens” of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations
Edited by Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves
The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe
By Sharon L. Jansen
The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I
By Anna Riehl
Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch
By Ilona Bell
Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth
Edited by Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock
The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen
By Catherine Loomis
Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe
By William Layher
The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I
Edited by Charles Beem
The French Queen’s Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in Sixteenth-
Century Europe
By Erin A. Sadlack
Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners
By Retha M. Warnicke
A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign
of Elizabeth I
By Rayne Allinson
Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England
By Lisa Benz St. John
Mary I: Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen
By Sarah Duncan
The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440–1627
By Kavita Mudan Finn
Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship
By Jo Eldridge Carney
Mother Queens and Princely Sons: Rogue Madonnas in the Age of Shakespeare
By Sid Ray
The Name of a Queen: William Fleetwood’s Itinerarium ad Windsor
Edited by Charles Beem and Dennis Moore
The Emblematic Queen: Extra-Literary Representations of Early Modern Queenship
Edited by Debra Barrett-Graves
The Queens Regnant of Navarre: Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274–1512
By Elena Woodacre
Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early
Modern Eras
Edited by Elena Woodacre
The Queen’s Mercy: Gender and Judgment in Representations of Elizabeth I
By Mary Villeponteaux
Titled Elizabethans: A Directory of Elizabethan Court, State, and Church Offi cers,
1558–1603
Edited by Arthur F. 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
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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
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registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills,
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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
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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
