Ptolemaic Girl Power: Arsinoe, Berenice II and Cleopatra VII

Thu, Jan 27, 2022 1:50 PM - 4:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time (UTC±0)

Tickets (£5.80) here.

Sarah Griffiths, Independent scholar and deputy editor of Ancient Egypt Magazine.

About this event

The Ptolemaic Dynasty was a final flowering of pharaonic Egypt, but with a distinctive Greek flavour – a continuation of Egypt’s religious traditions by a foreign elite with their own Hellenistic culture and traditions.

And yet the House of Ptolemy was a family at war with itself, a complex tangle of relationships based on sibling marriages that gave the formidable Ptolemaic queens positions of considerable power and influence but also contributed to dynastic instability.

Sarah Griffiths will paint a vivid picture of the rise and fall of Egypt’s last ancient dynasty, exploring the lives of three of Egypt’s most powerful women set against a backdrop of corruption, intrigue, murder, foreign wars, civil unrest and the series of catastrophic events that led to the decline of the kingdom and its final annexation by Rome.

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