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Lädt ... Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (2019)von Elizabeth Donnelly Carney
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Since the 1980s, Elizabeth Donnelly Carney has been one of the most important researchers of the ancient Macedonian court. One of her key contributions to the field concerns the political and social lives of royal women, and how their own histories are vital to a comprehensive picture of the Macedonian monarchy. Carney is the author of Women and Monarchy in Macedonia (2000), Olympias (2006), and Arsinoë of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life (2013), excellent and engaging works that have brought Macedonian royal women further into both academic debate and public consciousness, and offered a clearer understanding of the court itself. Carney’s latest biography of the oldest generation of royal women we know of, Eurydice, wife of Amyntas III and mother of Philip II, is of the same high standard. Gehört zur ReiheWomen in Antiquity (16)
Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a significant part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, though hardly the last. She was the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II (and two other short-lived kings of Macedonia), and grandmother of Alexander the Great. Her career marks a turning point in the role of royal women in Macedonian monarchy, one that coincides with the emergence of Macedonia as a great power in the Hellenic world. This study examines the nature of her public role as well as the factors that contributed to its expansion and to the expanding power of Macedonia. Some ancient sources picture Eurydice as a murderous adulteress willing to attempt the elimination of her husband and her three sons for the sake of her lover, whereas others portray her as a doting and heroic mother whose actions led to the preservation of the throne for her sons. While the latter view is likely closer to historical reality, both the "good" and "bad" Eurydice traditions portray her as the leader of a faction, an active figure at court and in international affairs. Eurydice's activity, sinister or not, directly related to the fact that, at the time of her husband's death, the eldest of her three sons was barely old enough to rule and enemies, foreign and domestic, threatened.� Two of Eurydice's sons were assassinated and the third died in battle. Eurydice functioned not only a succession advocate for her sons but she also played a part in the construction of the public image of the dynasty, both because of her own actions and because of the ways in which her son Philip II chose to depict and commemorate her. Drawing on recent archaeological discoveries and all surviving literary evidence, this portrait illuminates the life of a remarkable queen at the birth of a celebrated epoch. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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