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Women and Monarchy in Macedonia [Paperback]

Elizabeth Donnelly Carney (Author)
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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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Elizabeth Donnelly Carney is Professor of History at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.

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5.0 out of 5 stars same quality as Heckel's Marshals, Sep 28 2002
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Nick Welman (Eindhoven, NBr Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Women and Monarchy in Macedonia (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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5.0 out of 5 stars same quality as Heckel's Marshals, Sep 28 2002
By Nick Welman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Women and Monarchy in Macedonia (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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Thumb's up, April 8 2009
By James S. Romm "calanus" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Women and Monarchy in Macedonia (Paperback)
The mini-bios accompanying the text are a great innovation -- very lively and dramatic. What a cast of characters!
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