Power Couples in Antiquity brings together the reflections of ten specialists on Greek and Roman power couples from the 4th century BC to the 1st century AD.
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List of figures; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction. Anne Bielman Sánchez. Power Couples: from Antiquity to the Contemporary World; Chapter 1. Elizabeth Carney. An Exceptional Argead Couple: Philip II and Olympias; Chapter 2. Marie Widmer. Looking for the Seleucid Couple; Chapter 3. Monica D'Agostini. A Change of Husband: Cleopatra Thea, Stability and Dynamism of Hellenistic Royal Couples (150-129 BC); Chapter 4. Anne Bielman Sánchez and Virginie Joliton. Marital Crises or Institutional Crises? Two Ptolemaic Couples under the Spotlight; Chapter 5. Marie-Claire Ferriès. The Magistrate and the Queen: Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter 6. Ann-Cathrin Harders. Mark Antony and the Women at his Side; Chapter 7. Francesca Cenerini. An Exceptional and Eternal Couple: Augustus and Livia; Chapter 8. Judith P. Hallett. A Love Poet's Script for an Augustan Power Couple: Propertius 4.11; Chapter 9. Thomas Späth. Claudius and His Wives: The Normality of the Exceptional?; Chapter 10. Anne Bielman Sánchez. Power Couples in Antiquity: An Initial Survey; Index