The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier

by Roller,Duane W

• ISBN13: 9780415305969
• ISBN10: 0415305969
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Raised and educated in Rome, Juba II (48BC - AD 23) was sent to uphold Roman interests in northwest Africa as ruler of the new client kingdom of Mauretania. Together with his wife Kleopatra Selene, daughter of Mark Anthony and Kleopatra VII, he established a rich, multi-cultural 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 Atlantic coast of northwest Africa to India. The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene explores the complex culture and legacy of the kingdom, with emphasis on Juba's scholarship and the world created by these two remarkable monarchs. This detailed and comprehensive study is not only the first examination in English of Juba's life and career, but the first critical analysis of the king both asan implementer of the Augustan political, artistic and intellectual programme and as a notable scholar.

Author Biography

Duane W. Roller is Professor of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Abbreviations	xii
Introduction	1	(10)
1 Juba's Numidian ancestry	11	(28)
2 Mauretania	39	(20)
3 Juba's youth and education	59	(17)
4 Kleopatra Slene	76	(15)
5 The Mauretanian client kingdom: foundation, military history, and economy	91	(28)
6 The artistic and cultural program of Juba and Kleopatra Selene	119	(44)
7 Rex Literatissimus	163	(20)
8 Libyka	183	(29)
9 The eastern expedition with Gaius Caesar	212	(15)
10 On Arabia	227	(17)
11 The Mauretaniar dynasty	244	(13)
Epilogue	257	(4)
Appendix 1: The published works of Juba II	261	(3)
Appendix 2: Stemmata	264	(3)
Appendix 3: Client kingship	267	(9)
Bibliography	276	(34)
List of passages cited	310	(9)
Index	319