University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Hardcover. ***Signed and inscribed to the late Professor Peter Green*** Tan cloth covered hardcover with copper lettering to spine. Like new dust jacket with minor scuffing to the back cover. 8vo. (6 x 1 x 9 inches) Author's signature and inscription on the title page. Includes a genealogical charts, notes, abbreviations, bibliography, index to biographical essays and general index. 369 pp.

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ISBN: 9780806132129

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 sometimes 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. In addition, she 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. Women and Monarchy in Macedonia fills a growing need for an updated survey of the subject, corrects previously held assumptions, and offers a fresh interpretation of the status, function, influence, and authority of women in the ancient world.

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