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Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (Paperback)
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Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (Paperback)
Series: WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY
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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.
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