ARE 1985 Revised ed. Soft Cover New Excellent New Book. From the latter part of the fourth century B.C. for about three hundred years before the Christian era women of Macedonian blood in the Hellenistic kingdoms established by the Successors of Alexander the Great showed a remarkable capacity for ruling in the manner of the kings of whom they were wives and daughters. They possessed "greater than the measure of women, " as is said of them in ancient historians, the qualities of energy, political foresight, daring and courage which distinguished the men who took the world in their hands after Alexander's death. These women had great prestige and influence, and in some cases great political power. This book examines the question of woman-power from the time of the early royal women in Macedonia, down to the last queen, Laodice wife of Perseus. It discusses the position of the queens of Seleucid Syria and of Ptolemaic Egypt, from the founding of those dynasties to the last Seleucid and Ptolemaic queens, whose position and power were reflected in the vassal queens of Pontus and Mauretania under the Roman Empire. 250pp + 11 pll.