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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Elizabeth Donnelly Carney is Professor of History at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.
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same quality as Heckel's Marshals,
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This review is from: Women and Monarchy in Macedonia (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) (Paperback)
If you liked Heckel's book "Marshals of Alexander", you will like this one too. Beth Carney writes good, short biographies of the important women that were around in Alexander's time. I might disagree on deatils with her view e.g. on Roxane, but this is a thorough, serious and especially very readable scholarly study. I have waited two years since its publication before I bought it. I wished I had not.
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The mini-bios accompanying the text are a great innovation -- very lively and dramatic. What a cast of characters!
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Women were excluded from political power in the classical Greek polis, or city-state. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
individual royal women, royal polygamy, title basilissa, other royal women, royal woman, royal men, royal wives, dual kingship, female title, succession politics, title basileus, female burial, royal wife, royal males, marriage policy, cult worship, female cults, other dynasties, ruler cults, civic cult, royal mothers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Adea Eurydice, Antigonus Gonatas, Philip Arrhidaeus, Alexander the Great, Demetrius Poliorcetes, Asia Minor, Tomb of the Throne, Great Tumulus, Ptolemy Ceraunus, Alexander of Epirus, Ptolemy Alorites, Antigonid Macedonia, Antigonus Doson, Phila Aphrodite, Dionysius of Heracleia, Seleucus Nicator New!
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individual royal women, royal polygamy, title basilissa, other royal women, royal woman, royal men, royal wives, dual kingship, female title, succession politics, title basileus, female burial, royal wife, royal males, marriage policy, cult worship, female cults, other dynasties, ruler cults, civic cult, royal mothers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Adea Eurydice, Antigonus Gonatas, Philip Arrhidaeus, Alexander the Great, Demetrius Poliorcetes, Asia Minor, Tomb of the Throne, Great Tumulus, Ptolemy Ceraunus, Alexander of Epirus, Ptolemy Alorites, Antigonid Macedonia, Antigonus Doson, Phila Aphrodite, Dionysius of Heracleia, Seleucus Nicator New!
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- Alexander the Great (QED Great Lives) on 4 pages
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- The Aztecs by Philip Ardagh in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Medieval Women (Canto) by Eileen Power in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Philip of Macedon by N Hammond in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Frank L. Holt on page 2, and Back Matter
- Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan (Hellenistic Culture and Society) by Frank L. Holt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World) by Glenn R. Bugh in Back Matter
- Alexander the Great in his World (Blackwell Ancient Lives) by Carol G. Thomas in Back Matter
- Alexander the Great: Historical Sources in Translation (Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History) by Waldemar Heckel in Back Matter
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