Roller’s stated aims are to spotlight queens of the Augustan era who were allied to Rome, and to expose networks of relationships between them and with the Roman imperial house. The book is structured in eight chapters, six of which detail what the sources tell us of Cleopatra VII’s daughter Cleopatra Selene, Glaphyra of Cappadocia, Salome of Judaea, Dynamis of Bosporus, Pythodoris of Pontos, Aba of Olbia and Mousa of Parthia. The evidence for the queens’ lives is framed by an introductory chapter on the historical status of royal women, especially queens, and a concluding chapter on royal women and Roman women. Roller strays beyond his chronological limits in an appendix on the girl who, at her mother’s request danced for the head of John the Baptist. The girl is Salome, the eponymous grand-daughter of Salome of Judaea; she survived this hazardous experience, allowing Roller the opportunity to demonstrate the continuity of late Hellenistic royal behaviour, at least down to the aftermath of the death of Nero. A second appendix offers a note on Josephus and Nikolaos of Damascus, explaining why the balance of surviving information is skewed in favour of the Herodian court. There follow endnotes, abbreviations, a bibliography, a list of sources consulted and an index.