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Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (Hardcover)
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Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (Hardcover)
Series: Women in Antiquity
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Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a 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 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.
Archaeological discoveries since the 1980s enable us to better
understand this development.
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