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The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome´s African Frontier
Duane W Roller
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Paperback. This detailed and comprehensive study examines Juba's life and career and provides a critical analysis of the king both as an implementer of the Augustan political, artistic and intellectual programme and as a notable scholar. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 532.
Raised and educated in Rome, Juba II (48 BC- AD 23) was sent to uphold Roman interests in northwest Africa as ruler of the cliet kingdom of Mauretania. Together with his wife K'eopatra Selene, daughter of Marcus Anthonius and Kleopatra VII, he established a rich, multicultural environment at their capital, renamed Caesarea, where Egyptian, Hellenistic Greek and indigenous elements came together. Juba combined a reign of more than half a century with a career as a distinguished scholar and writer, producing an extensive collection of works and shaping Roman knowledge of the southern half of the known world, from the ... Read more
Raised and educated in Rome, Juba II (48 BC- AD 23) was sent to uphold Roman interests in northwest Africa as ruler of the cliet kingdom of Mauretania. Together with his wife K'eopatra Selene, daughter of Marcus Anthonius and Kleopatra VII, he established a rich, multicultural environment at their capital, renamed Caesarea, where Egyptian, Hellenistic Greek and indigenous elements came together. Juba combined a reign of more than half a century with a career as a distinguished scholar and writer, producing an extensive collection of works and shaping Roman knowledge of the southern half of the known world, from the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415754064
SKU
V9780415754064
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About Duane W Roller
Duane W. Roller is Professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University.
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