Dee L. Clayman is Professor of Classics and Executive Officer of the PhD Program in Classics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Berenice II was a major influence on the cultural and intellectual life of the Ptolemaic court at its zenith. In this first full-scale biography, Dee L. Clayman has brought together historical, material, and literary sources to tease out the remarkable story of this queen's crafting of her own position of power through court intrigue, manipulation of artistic and religious imagery, and close alliance with literary figures such as Callimachus and Apollonius of Rhodes, who celebrated their queen both overtly and covertly in still famous works of poetry.

• Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; The Family Tree of Berenice II ; Map of The Eastern Meditteranean in the 3rd Century BCE ; Introduction ; One. Birth in Cyrene ; Two. Arrival in Alexandria ; Three. Callimachus on Murder and Marriage ; Four. Apollonius on Murder and Marriage ; Five. Ruling and Racing ; Six. Berenice in Egypt and another Murder ; Appendix: Catullus 66 ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; Index Locorum

Dee L. Clayman is Professor of Classics and Executive Officer of the PhD Program in Classics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Berenice II was a major influence on the cultural and intellectual life of the Ptolemaic court at its zenith. In this first full-scale biography, Dee L. Clayman has brought together historical, material, and literary sources to tease out the remarkable story of this queen's crafting of her own position of power through court intrigue, manipulation of artistic and religious imagery, and close alliance with literary figures such as Callimachus and Apollonius of Rhodes, who celebrated their queen both overtly and covertly in still famous works of poetry.

• Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; The Family Tree of Berenice II ; Map of The Eastern Meditteranean in the 3rd Century BCE ; Introduction ; One. Birth in Cyrene ; Two. Arrival in Alexandria ; Three. Callimachus on Murder and Marriage ; Four. Apollonius on Murder and Marriage ; Five. Ruling and Racing ; Six. Berenice in Egypt and another Murder ; Appendix: Catullus 66 ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; Index Locorum