Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt

A sophisticated portrait of a formidable, yet relatively unknown, queen in the 200-year power struggle that followed the death of Alexander the Great.

Dee L. Clayman is Professor of Classics and Executive Officer of the PhD Program in Classics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
The Family Tree of Berenice II
Map of The Eastern Meditteranean in the 3rd Century BCE
Introduction
One. Birth in Cyrene
Two. Arrival in Alexandria
Three. Callimachus on Murder and Marriage
Four. Apollonius on Murder and Marriage
Five. Ruling and Racing
Six. Berenice in Egypt and another Murder
Appendix: Catullus 66
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Index Locorum