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Sabine Müller, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Alex McAuley. Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III., The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 3, September 2024, Pages 1322–1323, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae322
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In the past few years, Hellenistic royal women, formerly a subject at the margins of the academic debate, have emerged in the center of international scholarly attention: “Queens are in fashion these days” (1). Several factors contributed to this development such as the shift of focus from systems to political structures and social circumstances; the more critical treatment of the frequently biased ancient literary reports of women engaging in the fields of politics, and the publication of the Milan Papyrus, which provided new insights into the public role of early Ptolemaic women. Currently, major themes in the debate on Hellenistic royal women center on their agency, networks, symbolic capital, self-fashioning, and social roles. In Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Alex McAuley, renowned experts on Hellenistic history, have made a fundamental contribution to the scholarship on Hellenistic royal women as political factors, particularly in terms of their agency and nuptial and natal networks.
