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In this groundbreaking work, Elizabeth Donnelly Carney examines the role of royal women in the Macedonian Argead dynasty from the sixth century B.C. to 168 B.C. Women were excluded from the exercise of power in most of the Hellenic world. However, Carney shows that the wives, mothers, and daughters of kings played important roles in Macedonian public life and occasionally determined the course of national events. Carney assembles an exhaustive array of evidence on the political role of Argead royal women. She also presents a series of biographical sketches describing the public careers of all the royal women - including Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great, and the warrior Cynnane, his half-sister - whose names are preserved in ancient sources.
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2000
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Women and Monarchy in Macedonia
Elizabeth Donnelly Carney
University of Oklahoma Press : Norman
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Portions of the following chapters were first published, in different versions, as follows: chapter 4 in American Journal of Philology 117 (1996), 56383; chapter 5 in Ventures into Greek History, ed. I. Worthington (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), 35780, by permission of Oxford University Press; chapters 6 and 8 in Ancient History Bulletin 8 (1994), 12331.
Carney, Elizabeth Donnelly, 1947 Women and monarchy in Macedonia / Elizabeth Donnelly Carney. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8061-3212-4 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. QueensMacedonia Biography. 2. Women in public life Macedonia Biography. 3. WomenMacedoniaHistory I. Title. DF233.2.C37 2000 938'.1'0082dc21 99-37790 CIP
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Dis manibus Emma Louise Maynard Carney Babbit Elizabeth Donnelly Chapman Carney
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Contents
Preface
ix
Introduction
xi
Chapter 1. Women and Monarchy in the Argead Period
3
Chapter 2. Eurydice and the Reigns of Amyntas, III, Alexander II, and Perdiccas III
38
Chapter 3. Royal Women and Philip II
51
Chapter 4. Royal Women and Alexander the Great
82
Chapter 5. Olympias, Cleopatra, Cynnane, Adea Eurydice, and the End of the Argead Dynasty (323308)
114
Chapter 6. Royal Women in Transition: The Antipatrids and the Descent to Chaos (316277)
153
Chapter 7. Women and Monarchy in the Antigonid Period (277168)
179
Chapter 8. Changes in the Public Role of Macedonian Royal Women in the Hellenistic Period
203
Chapter 9. Royal Female Burials
234
Conclusion
245
Appendix: Genealogical Charts
249
Notes
255
Abbreviations
333
Bibliography
335
Index to Biographical Essays
353
General Index
355
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Preface
The origins of this book lie far back in my scholarly career. In 1980 I began work on an article about Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great. This research followed logically from a dissertation on the relationship between Alexander the Great and the Macedonian aristocracy and a subsequent series of articles dealing with various aspects of relations between Macedonian rulers and the Macedonian elite. At that time I had no sense that research on Olympias would be any different from research on Macedonian men.
Meanwhile, in the years since the completion of my dissertation in 1975, like many other women classicists of my generation, I had begun to teach myself about the role of women in Graeco-Roman antiquity. In 1977 1 taught a course on women in the ancient world for the first time. I had, at first, no reason to think my personal and pedagogical interest in the history of women in the ancient period, still comparatively trendy in the 1970s, could or would intersect in any way with my much more traditional research in Macedonian political history.
To my surprise, my two seemingly separate areas of interest intersected and collided. I soon discovered that, obvious though it seemed to me that Olympias had played an important role in the reigns of her son and grandson and perhaps in that of her husband, little work had been done on her. The work that had been done was based largely on remarkably uncritical use of ancient sources as well as sexual stereotypes and caricatures. My initial publication on Olympias was comparatively polite about this phenomenon. I had discovered a considerable void in the very heart of one of the grand topics of Graeco-Roman history, the reign of Alexander the Great.
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