The last of the Ptolemaic monarchs who ruled Egypt for 300 years, Cleopatra is the most famous of the Ptolemaic queens. But what of her predecessors? The Last Queens of Egypt examines the roles played by the Ptolemaic royal women and explores their part in religion, politics and court intrigue. Explaining their propensity for incest, murder and power, Sally Ann Ashton shows the extent of the power they enjoyed, the price they paid, and how they shaped Cleopatra's reign.

The Last Queens of Egypt

Biographies & Memoirs

Ashton, Sally-Ann

Community & Culture

Routledge

Memphis was one of the great melting pots of Mediterranean and African culture during the reigns of the heirs of Alexander and under the Roman Empire, a vibrant and complex community well after the end of the age of its ancient Pharaonic founders.  For too long, its importance during this critical period has been wrongly eclipsed by the younger city of Alexandria.  This book challenges such assumptions by taking a closer look at Memphis through the lens of the rich material excavated there by Flinders Petrie over a century ago, and exhibited in University College London’s Petrie Museum. These finds bring alive the diversity of the city’s inhabitants and raise questions, still relevant today, about the representations and realities of ethnic groups. This book presents the excavation background to the finds, their manufacturing processes and their cultural implications.  It is accompanied by a CD ROM that illustrates this informative and neglected material.

Petrie's Ptolemaic and Roman Memphis (UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications)

History

Ancient Civilizations

Accompanying an exhibition held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, from September 2004 to May 2005, this volume contains more than one hundred objects which reflect the earliest episode of Egyptomania. Sally-Ann Ashton explores the Egyptian objects that were taken to and received in Italy and how this spawned a tradition of copying elements of this exotic and alien culture, as well as the development of existing cultural and artistic traditions in Egypt under Roman rule. Her discussion of these different forms of acculturation is set alongside beautifully photographed objects from the exhibition.

Roman Egyptomania

Golden House Publications

This book differentiates between categories of adolescent male offending and explores the behavioural and social profiles of those who become involved inviolent offending and organized crime. Using self-reported and arrest data, the book examines the key stages of male adolescent offending with a view to early recognition of behaviours that leave young men vulnerable to criminal exploitation and the escalation of violence. It also explains the importance of understanding crime motivations, how young men view themselves when they offend, and the emotions that they experience. Rather than looking at violent offending as a single category of behavior, the book helps readers differentiate between types of adolescent violence and understand the underlying psychological and social causes. It offers an insight into the journey of young people who are criminally exploited and those who become involved in committing acts of serious violence and organized crime. It does so by using data from official records, self-reported offending, and the narratives of young people. Each chapter focuses on a particular stage of offending with a view to early identification, support, and diversion. Pathways to Adolescent Male Violent Offending is aimed at practitioners in youth offending services, youth work, policing, and education. It will also be useful for students of forensic and investigative psychology, criminal justice, policing, and child and adolescent mental health.

Pathways to Adolescent Male Violent Offending (Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour)

Teen & Young Adult

The last of the Ptolemaic monarchs who ruled Egypt for 300 years, Cleopatra is the most famous of the Ptolemaic queens. But what of her predecessors? The Last Queens of Egypt examines the roles played by the Ptolemaic royal women and explores their part in religion, politics and court intrigue. Explaining their propensity for incest, murder and power, Sally Ann Ashton shows the extent of the power they enjoyed, the price they paid, and how they shaped Cleopatra's reign.  

The Last Queens of Egypt: Cleopatra's Royal House

This beautifully illustrated new biography of Cleopatra draws on literary, archaeological, and art historical evidence to paint an intimate and compelling portrait of the most famous Queen of Egypt.     Deconstructs the image of Cleopatra to uncover the complex historical figure behind the myth   Examines Greek, Roman, and Egyptian representations of Cleopatra   Considers how she was viewed by her contemporaries and how she presented herself   Incorporates the author’s recent field work at a temple of Cleopatra in Alexandria   Beautifully illustrated with over 40 images

Cleopatra and Egypt (Blackwell Ancient Lives)

Wiley/Blackwell

This beautifully illustrated new biography of Cleopatra draws on literary, archaeological, and art historical evidence to paint an intimate and compelling portrait of the most famous Queen of Egypt. 
<ul> <li>Deconstructs the image of Cleopatra to uncover the complex historical figure behind the myth</li> <li>Examines Greek, Roman, and Egyptian representations of Cleopatra</li> <li>Considers how she was viewed by her contemporaries and how she presented herself</li> <li>Incorporates the author’s recent field work at a temple of Cleopatra in Alexandria</li> <li>Beautifully illustrated with over 40 images</li> </ul>

Cleopatra and Egypt

Subtitled `The interaction between Greek and Egyptian traditions', this thesis aims to establish a chronology for developments in the portrayal of the Ptolemaic royal family. Sally-Ann Ashton catalogues 70 examples of Ptolemaic royal portraiture, gathered from museum collections around the world, and considers the function and audience of the different types of portrait that she identifies.

Ptolemaic Royal Sculpture from Egypt (BAR International)

Arts & Photography

Sculpture

British Archaeological Reports

Why are we still interested in Cleopatra? She has that eternally attractive combination of sexual allure, political power - even divine status - and personal wealth. She had by any standards an eventful life and an unforgettable death. She very nearly tipped the balance of power at a crucial moment in history: had she and Antony succeeded in maintaining their empire in the east, our cultural life might be very different today. In this concise, readable, well-illustrated book, Susan Walker and Sally-Ann Ashton look at the historical Cleopatra, at images of Cleopatra as a Greek queen and as ruler of Egypt, at contemporary perceptions of her and at how we see her today. We see how Roman propaganda depicted her as a threatening woman with non-Roman qualities of excessive behaviour and emotional manipulation, a view that has come down through Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and forms the basis of our understanding of her over two thousand years later.

Cleopatra (Ancients in Action)

Walker, Susan

Arts & Literature

Bristol Classical Press

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