In this groundbreaking work, Elizabeth Donnelly Carney examines the role of royal Women in the Macedonian Argead dynasty from the sixth century B.
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Carney assembles an exhaustive array of evidence on the political role of Argead.
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.
Women were excluded from the exercise of power in most of the Hellenic world. to 168 B.
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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.
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