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Sheila L Ager

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ID230102
NAMESheila L Ager
GIVEN NAMESSheila L
FAMILY NAMEAger
SIGNATUREAGER S L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Waterloo
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS39
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3
  • Afterword

    Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•Localism in Hellenistic Greece•2023

  • A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age

    Ronald Edsforth, Sheila L Ager et al.•BOOK•A Cultural History of Peace in…•2020

    A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age, explores peace in the period from 1920 to the present. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meani…

  • A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity

    Sheila L Ager, Walter Simons et al.•BOOK•A Cultural History of Peace in…•2020

    A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity, explores peace in the period from 500 BC to 800 AD. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of pe…

  • Fama and Infamia

    Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in…•2020

  • Tryphaina

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2017

    Tryphaina was the eldest daughter of Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra III, born around 141/0 bce . In 124 bce she was married to her cousin, the Seleucid Antiochos VIII, to whom she bore five sons and one daughter. Around 114 bce , Tryphaina's sister Cleopatra IV married Antiochos VIII's half‐brother Antiochos IX. During the war between the two half‐brothers, Cleopatra IV was captured and put to death by her sister Tryphaina; shortly thereafter Tryphai…

  • Marriage or Mirage? The Phantom Wedding of Cleopatra and Antony

    Sheila L Ager•ARTICLE•Classical Philology•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    The Queen and the Triumvir took their place upon a dais. The Queen wore a long gown of gold tissue that made her figure look even more slim and supple. A stomacher of magnificent gems encased her breasts. Upon her head was the double diadem of Upper and Lower Egypt, encircled by the sacred uraeus . . . . The Queen rose, took up a fan and tenderly fanned her Consort. Then, with the ancient golden spatula which through the centuries was used to ano…

  • Alexander's Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors by Joseph Roisman

    Sheila L Ager•ARTICLE•Phoenix•2013

    BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 403 (10). Hence the book is liberally festooned with “could have,” “may have,” “might have,” “must have,” “most likely,” “probably,” “imply,” “may mean,” and the like. But such cautions come with the classicist’s territory, and indeed their absence is regretted when Carney moves outside her realm of expertise, stating as a fact the imaginative speculation that it was Caligula who imported the two statues of Arsinoë and…

  • Arbitration, international

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    The employment of disengaged third parties to settle international disputes is a phenomenon of great antiquity.

  • Boundary disputes

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    Disputes over territory have been a leading cause of interstate wars throughout history.

  • Polis

    Open Access•P J Rhodes, Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    During the Archaic and Classical periods, the polis (“city‐state”) became the characteristic, though not the universal, primary political unit of the Greeks, and the unit on which their political philosophy was based.

  • Lebedos

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    Traditionally founded by one Andropompos or Andraimon (Strabo 14.1.3; Paus. 7.3.5), the polis of Lebedos was one of the core members of the Ionian koinon .

  • Treaties, Archaic and Classical Greece

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    International relations in Archaic and Classical Greece featured a complex network of interstate diplomacy and treaty relations.

  • Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World

    Sheila L Ager, Sheila Ager et al.•BOOK•Belonging and Isolation in the…•2012

    With a range of social, artistic, economic, political, and literary perspectives, the contributors provide a lively exploration of the tensions and opportunities of life in the Hellenistic Mediterranean

  • Roman Perspectives On Greek Diplomacy

    Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•Diplomats and diplomacy in the…•2009

    Greek and Roman diplomatic conflicts should not be seen as all purely of one type or the other: either genuine misunderstandings or cynical exploitations of cultural differences. By the time of the Rhodian debacle in I68, the Greek world had a long history of the diplomacy of compromise and of third party intervention in disputes. The author suggests that the one Roman concept that most significantly clashed with Greek attitudes towards the diplo…

  • Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager, Richard A Billows et al.•BOOK•Regionalism in Hellenistic and…•2007•Cited by: 3

    La notion de région a depuis fort longtemps été un concept de base de l'analyse historique du monde grec. Cependant, ce concept n'a pas toujours été clairement défini. Les contributions de ce volume n'esquivent pas la question et s'efforcent de mettre en évidence les implications de la notion selon différentes perspectives d'analyse, en prenant pour cadre de référence l'Asie Mineure hellénistique et romaine. Qu'elles examinent la culture, le monn…

  • The Power of Excess

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•ARTICLE•Anthropologica•2006•Cited by: 6•References: 29

    The Greco-Macedonian dynasty of the Ptolemies, which ruled Egypt from 322 until 30 BCE, established early on a practice of incestuous marriage in the royal house. This cus tom, which may have had a number of pragmatic functional pur poses, was on a more profound level symbolic of royal power. But royal incest, as practised by the Ptolemies, was only one of a larger set of behaviours, all of which were symbolic of power, and all of which were char…

  • The Hellenistic World

    Sheila L Ager•REVIEW•Phoenix•2004

    The Hellenistic World assembles fourteen new papers, by an international group of contributors, on the pivotal age between the death of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII. Subjects range from settlement patterns, non-Greek populations and marginal peoples, the personnel, rivalries and religious ideologies of the royal courts, and on to the wider question of the political structure of the Hellenistic world. Considerable attention is paid to the…

  • Asylia

    Sheila L Ager•REVIEW•Phoenix•1998

    In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be sacred and inviolable. Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon--mainly inscriptions and coins--is scattered in the published record. The material has never been collected and presented in one publication until now. Kent J. Rigsby lays out these documents…

  • Nomos

    Sheila L Ager, Paul Cartledge et al.•ARTICLE•The Classical World•1993•Cited by: 24

  • Seleukos Nikator

    Sheila L Ager, John D Grainger•ARTICLE•The Classical World•1992•Cited by: 5

  • Nomos

    Sheila L Ager, Paul Cartledge et al.•ARTICLE•The Classical World•1993•Cited by: 24

  • The Power of Excess

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•ARTICLE•Anthropologica•2006•Cited by: 6•References: 29

    The Greco-Macedonian dynasty of the Ptolemies, which ruled Egypt from 322 until 30 BCE, established early on a practice of incestuous marriage in the royal house. This cus tom, which may have had a number of pragmatic functional pur poses, was on a more profound level symbolic of royal power. But royal incest, as practised by the Ptolemies, was only one of a larger set of behaviours, all of which were symbolic of power, and all of which were char…

  • Seleukos Nikator

    Sheila L Ager, John D Grainger•ARTICLE•The Classical World•1992•Cited by: 5

  • Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager, Richard A Billows et al.•BOOK•Regionalism in Hellenistic and…•2007•Cited by: 3

    La notion de région a depuis fort longtemps été un concept de base de l'analyse historique du monde grec. Cependant, ce concept n'a pas toujours été clairement défini. Les contributions de ce volume n'esquivent pas la question et s'efforcent de mettre en évidence les implications de la notion selon différentes perspectives d'analyse, en prenant pour cadre de référence l'Asie Mineure hellénistique et romaine. Qu'elles examinent la culture, le monn…

  • Marriage or Mirage? The Phantom Wedding of Cleopatra and Antony

    Sheila L Ager•ARTICLE•Classical Philology•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    The Queen and the Triumvir took their place upon a dais. The Queen wore a long gown of gold tissue that made her figure look even more slim and supple. A stomacher of magnificent gems encased her breasts. Upon her head was the double diadem of Upper and Lower Egypt, encircled by the sacred uraeus . . . . The Queen rose, took up a fan and tenderly fanned her Consort. Then, with the ancient golden spatula which through the centuries was used to ano…

  • Seleukos Nikator

    Sheila L Ager, John D Grainger•ARTICLE•The Classical World•1992•Cited by: 5

  • Nomos

    Sheila L Ager, Paul Cartledge et al.•ARTICLE•The Classical World•1993•Cited by: 24

  • Asylia

    Sheila L Ager•REVIEW•Phoenix•1998

    In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be sacred and inviolable. Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon--mainly inscriptions and coins--is scattered in the published record. The material has never been collected and presented in one publication until now. Kent J. Rigsby lays out these documents…

  • The Hellenistic World

    Sheila L Ager•REVIEW•Phoenix•2004

    The Hellenistic World assembles fourteen new papers, by an international group of contributors, on the pivotal age between the death of Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII. Subjects range from settlement patterns, non-Greek populations and marginal peoples, the personnel, rivalries and religious ideologies of the royal courts, and on to the wider question of the political structure of the Hellenistic world. Considerable attention is paid to the…

  • The Power of Excess

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•ARTICLE•Anthropologica•2006•Cited by: 6•References: 29

    The Greco-Macedonian dynasty of the Ptolemies, which ruled Egypt from 322 until 30 BCE, established early on a practice of incestuous marriage in the royal house. This cus tom, which may have had a number of pragmatic functional pur poses, was on a more profound level symbolic of royal power. But royal incest, as practised by the Ptolemies, was only one of a larger set of behaviours, all of which were symbolic of power, and all of which were char…

  • Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager, Richard A Billows et al.•BOOK•Regionalism in Hellenistic and…•2007•Cited by: 3

    La notion de région a depuis fort longtemps été un concept de base de l'analyse historique du monde grec. Cependant, ce concept n'a pas toujours été clairement défini. Les contributions de ce volume n'esquivent pas la question et s'efforcent de mettre en évidence les implications de la notion selon différentes perspectives d'analyse, en prenant pour cadre de référence l'Asie Mineure hellénistique et romaine. Qu'elles examinent la culture, le monn…

  • Roman Perspectives On Greek Diplomacy

    Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•Diplomats and diplomacy in the…•2009

    Greek and Roman diplomatic conflicts should not be seen as all purely of one type or the other: either genuine misunderstandings or cynical exploitations of cultural differences. By the time of the Rhodian debacle in I68, the Greek world had a long history of the diplomacy of compromise and of third party intervention in disputes. The author suggests that the one Roman concept that most significantly clashed with Greek attitudes towards the diplo…

  • Arbitration, international

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    The employment of disengaged third parties to settle international disputes is a phenomenon of great antiquity.

  • Boundary disputes

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    Disputes over territory have been a leading cause of interstate wars throughout history.

  • Polis

    Open Access•P J Rhodes, Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    During the Archaic and Classical periods, the polis (“city‐state”) became the characteristic, though not the universal, primary political unit of the Greeks, and the unit on which their political philosophy was based.

  • Lebedos

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    Traditionally founded by one Andropompos or Andraimon (Strabo 14.1.3; Paus. 7.3.5), the polis of Lebedos was one of the core members of the Ionian koinon .

  • Treaties, Archaic and Classical Greece

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2012

    International relations in Archaic and Classical Greece featured a complex network of interstate diplomacy and treaty relations.

  • Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World

    Sheila L Ager, Sheila Ager et al.•BOOK•Belonging and Isolation in the…•2012

    With a range of social, artistic, economic, political, and literary perspectives, the contributors provide a lively exploration of the tensions and opportunities of life in the Hellenistic Mediterranean

  • Marriage or Mirage? The Phantom Wedding of Cleopatra and Antony

    Sheila L Ager•ARTICLE•Classical Philology•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    The Queen and the Triumvir took their place upon a dais. The Queen wore a long gown of gold tissue that made her figure look even more slim and supple. A stomacher of magnificent gems encased her breasts. Upon her head was the double diadem of Upper and Lower Egypt, encircled by the sacred uraeus . . . . The Queen rose, took up a fan and tenderly fanned her Consort. Then, with the ancient golden spatula which through the centuries was used to ano…

  • Alexander's Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors by Joseph Roisman

    Sheila L Ager•ARTICLE•Phoenix•2013

    BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 403 (10). Hence the book is liberally festooned with “could have,” “may have,” “might have,” “must have,” “most likely,” “probably,” “imply,” “may mean,” and the like. But such cautions come with the classicist’s territory, and indeed their absence is regretted when Carney moves outside her realm of expertise, stating as a fact the imaginative speculation that it was Caligula who imported the two statues of Arsinoë and…

  • Tryphaina

    Open Access•Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•The Encyclopedia of Ancient History•2017

    Tryphaina was the eldest daughter of Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra III, born around 141/0 bce . In 124 bce she was married to her cousin, the Seleucid Antiochos VIII, to whom she bore five sons and one daughter. Around 114 bce , Tryphaina's sister Cleopatra IV married Antiochos VIII's half‐brother Antiochos IX. During the war between the two half‐brothers, Cleopatra IV was captured and put to death by her sister Tryphaina; shortly thereafter Tryphai…

  • A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age

    Ronald Edsforth, Sheila L Ager et al.•BOOK•A Cultural History of Peace in…•2020

    A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age, explores peace in the period from 1920 to the present. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meani…

  • A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity

    Sheila L Ager, Walter Simons et al.•BOOK•A Cultural History of Peace in…•2020

    A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity, explores peace in the period from 500 BC to 800 AD. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of pe…

  • Fama and Infamia

    Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in…•2020

  • Afterword

    Sheila L Ager•CHAPTER•Localism in Hellenistic Greece•2023

Classical Antiquity Studies (15 works) · History (15 works) · Ancient history (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (6 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (4 works) · Geography (4 works)

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