Elizabeth Carney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Carney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Carney |
| SIGNATURE | CARNEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Women of Alexander’s Court
Women were interwoven into the politics of Alexander’s itinerant court. Alexander’s mother Olympias and his full sister Cleopatra played the most important and enduring roles at court, even though they remained in the Greek peninsula and never saw Alexander again. His half-sisters Cynnane and Thessalonice and his niece Adea-Eurydice (also all resident in the Greek peninsula during Alexander’s reign) only grew to some level of importance after his…
Snakes and ladders
Argead Women and Religion
The studies on the relationship between religion and Macedonian monarchy have been mainly focused on male rulers. This paper tries to compile and analyse the evidence for Macedonian royal women. This article demonstrates the importance of public religion and patronage for those women through archaeological, epigraphical, and textual evidence. The corpus shows that religious affairs in Macedonia were necessarily entangled with political and cultur…
Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Women in Antigonid monarchy
This chapter tries to understand why the prominent role of women in Antigonid monarchy, initially a model for competing dynasties, narrowed after the death of Demetrios Poliorketes, reversing the general trend in other dynasties, despite the persistence of similarities between the role of third- and second-century Antigonid women and that of women in other Hellenistic royal houses. The chapter also considers how some inscriptional evidence compli…
Introduction to thinking about women and monarchy in the ancient world
The royal family typically plays a vital role at moments of transition from one ruler to another and obviously provides additional rulers upon the disappearance or ineligibility of the current ruler, but it also extends and publicizes rule and helps those ruled to understand and connect to the ruler. Whether or not individual petitioners had direct access to women or whether they petitioned through correspondence or a woman&s;s agents, royal wome…
Blending dark green vegetables with fruits in commercially available infant foods makes them taste like fruit
Eurydike (Eurydice), wife of Philip Arrhidaios
Adea (ca. 336–316 bce ), daughter of Kynnane (Philip II of Macedon's daughter by the Illyrian Audata) and of Amyntas, son of Perdikkas III, took the name “Eurydike” when she married (322/1) Philip III Arrhidaios, the half‐brother of Alexander III, the Great. Often acting for her mentally limited husband, she contended with various regents, sometimes addressing the troops in hopes of wresting control of them from the regents. When, however, she le…
Olympias
Olympias (ca. 373–316 BCE), daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molossians, married Philip II of Macedon and had two children: Alexander (the Great) and Cleopatra. During Alexander's absence on campaign in Asia, Olympias remained in close touch with her son, and acted in concert with his policies and in support of her own, often in opposition to Alexander's general Antipater. After Alexander's death, she was actively involved in Macedonian polit…
Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty
Queenship, Hellenistic
In the Hellenistic era, the roles of royal women became more institutionalized and more defined than previously. Being a basilissa never became an office with a clear job description, but royal women increasingly had widely recognized responsibilities and activities.
Commemoration of a Royal Woman as a Warrior
Despite the recent re-examination of the male and female human remains from tomb II at Vergina, it remains difficult to reconcile the osteological evidence with extant literary evidence about any one of the various royal women who might have been buried in the antechamber of the famous tomb. What does seem clear is that, for reasons of his own, the ruler who interred this woman chose to commemorate her as a woman warrior
Basilissa
Basilissa is a title first applied to royal women (kings’ wives and sometimes kings’ daughters) in the early Hellenistic era and designates royal status, not specific powers.
King and Court in Ancient Macedonia
Successful Mediocrity
Successful Mediocrity:The Career of Polyperchon Elizabeth D. Carney Justin (13.1.12–13) famously admired the qualities of Alexander’s generals, observing “For never before that time did Macedonia, or indeed any other nation, produce so rich a crop of brilliant men, men who had been picked out with such care, first by Philip and then by Alexander, that they seemed chosen less as comrades in arms than as successors to the throne” (Yardley 1994, 123…
Thessalonike, Macedonian
Thessalonike (ca. 342–ca. 295 BCE ), daughter of Philip II of Macedon by Nikesipolis of Pherai (Ath. 11.784c, 13.557c) and thus half‐sister of Alexander III, The Great, became wife to the first non‐Argead ruler of Macedonia, Cassander. Her mother died soon after giving birth to her, and apparently Thessalonike remained, still unmarried, in the entourage of Olympias, until Cassander forced Olympias to surrender at the siege of Pydna in 316 BCE .
Roxane
Roxane (ca. 345–ca. 310 BCE ), daughter of the Bactrian noble and later satrap Oxyartes, married Alexander the Great in 328/7 and bore him a son, Alexander IV, only a few months after his death in 323 (Curt. 10.6.9; Just. Epit . 13.2.5).
Olympias
Olympias (ca. 373–316 BCE ), daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molossians, married Philip Ii of Macedon ca. 357 BCE and had two children: Alexander III, The Great and Cleopatra.
Eurydike, wife of Philip Arrhidaios
Adea (ca. 336–16 BCE ), daughter of Kynnane (Philip II of Macedon's daughter by the Illyrian Audata) and of Amyntas, son of Perdikkas III, took the name “Eurydike” when she married (322/1) Philip III Arrhidaios, the half‐brother of Alexander III, The Great (Arr. in FGrH 156 F9.23).
Symposia and the Macedonian Elite
This paper will evaluate the degree to which, during the reigns of Philip II and Alexander III (an era which produced most of our evidence about Macedonian drinking), court symposia actually differed from those of southern Greece. It will argue that Macedonian drinking practices were distinctive in some significant respects and reflect upon the relationship between these drinking habits and the nature of Macedonian monarchy and elite culture. It …
Suburbanizing Nature and Naturalizing Suburbanites
Landscape architects, consumer magazines, and garden clubs promoted an outdoor-living culture in the West that linked the home with the greater outdoors. This analysis of outdoor-living culture from the 1920s into the postwar decades reveals how rapid suburban growth and native-newcomer tensions shaped middle-class environmental sensibilities and a new western sense of place
Olympias
The definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, this is the first modern biography of Olympias. Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, Elizabeth Carney penetrates myth, fiction and sexual politics and conducts a close examination of Olympias through historical and literary sources, and brings her to life as she places the figure in the context of her …
Hunting and the Macedonian Elite
Artifice and Alexander History
This book's sources for the reign of Alexander the Great of Macedon are full of set pieces, occasions in which the usually transparent ropes moving people and scenery about in ordinary narrative become evident. This chapter looks at two themes in Alexander history in which it is not so easy to draw the line between what happened and what did not, between the real and the significantly augmented event. It focuses on the series of anecdotes about t…
Macedonians Abroad
Macedonians and Mutiny
Olympias
The definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, this is the first modern biography of Olympias. Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, Elizabeth Carney penetrates myth, fiction and sexual politics and conducts a close examination of Olympias through historical and literary sources, and brings her to life as she places the figure in the context of her …
Olympias and the Image of the Virago
SURVIVING SOURCES ON OLYMPIAS, mother of Alexander the Great and wife of Philip ii of Macedon, display a level of hostility toward her perhaps equaled only by the source tradition about Cleopatra vii and Clodia. In recent years scholarship has come to terms with the partisanship of ancient treatments of the latter two; scholarly assessment of their careers is no longer synonymous with the judgments of antiquity. The same phenomenon has yet to sha…
King and Court in Ancient Macedonia
Theopompus of Chios
Alexander and Persian Women
Alexander and Persian Women Elizabeth Donnelly Carney Perhaps the most dominant symbol of conquest in Greek literature is that of the captive woman, the wife, the mother, the daughter of some once great warrior now slave and perhaps concubine to the man who killed him. It is the image of Andromache led away to do demeaning work for some Greek that most haunts Hector when he foresees defeat; he hopes he is dead before it happens (Il. 6.450–65). As…
Macedonians Abroad
Blending dark green vegetables with fruits in commercially available infant foods makes them taste like fruit
Symposia and the Macedonian Elite
This paper will evaluate the degree to which, during the reigns of Philip II and Alexander III (an era which produced most of our evidence about Macedonian drinking), court symposia actually differed from those of southern Greece. It will argue that Macedonian drinking practices were distinctive in some significant respects and reflect upon the relationship between these drinking habits and the nature of Macedonian monarchy and elite culture. It …
Commemoration of a Royal Woman as a Warrior
Despite the recent re-examination of the male and female human remains from tomb II at Vergina, it remains difficult to reconcile the osteological evidence with extant literary evidence about any one of the various royal women who might have been buried in the antechamber of the famous tomb. What does seem clear is that, for reasons of his own, the ruler who interred this woman chose to commemorate her as a woman warrior
Fact and Fiction in ‘Queen Eleanor's Confession’
Analyse et interpretation des differentes variantes de la ballade Confession de la reine Eleonore. Selon certaines versions la fidelite de la reine est mise en doute, dans d'autres, ce serait plutot celle de Marguerite, la jeune femme d'Henri Plantagenet, fils d'Henri II, ou bien encore la reine Eleonore aurait empoisonne Rosamond, la maitresse d'Henri II
Fact and Fiction in ‘Queen Eleanor's Confession’
Analyse et interpretation des differentes variantes de la ballade Confession de la reine Eleonore. Selon certaines versions la fidelite de la reine est mise en doute, dans d'autres, ce serait plutot celle de Marguerite, la jeune femme d'Henri Plantagenet, fils d'Henri II, ou bien encore la reine Eleonore aurait empoisonne Rosamond, la maitresse d'Henri II
Untersuchungen zur Datierung der Alexandergeschichte des Q. Curtius Rufus
The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome
Volume I Introduction Part I: The Instruments of Diplomacy Part II: Attitudes and Motivation Volume II Part III: The Patterns of Behavior Conclusion Bibliography Index
From the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Battle of Ipsus
Olympias and the Image of the Virago
SURVIVING SOURCES ON OLYMPIAS, mother of Alexander the Great and wife of Philip ii of Macedon, display a level of hostility toward her perhaps equaled only by the source tradition about Cleopatra vii and Clodia. In recent years scholarship has come to terms with the partisanship of ancient treatments of the latter two; scholarly assessment of their careers is no longer synonymous with the judgments of antiquity. The same phenomenon has yet to sha…
Theopompus of Chios
Alexander and Persian Women
Alexander and Persian Women Elizabeth Donnelly Carney Perhaps the most dominant symbol of conquest in Greek literature is that of the captive woman, the wife, the mother, the daughter of some once great warrior now slave and perhaps concubine to the man who killed him. It is the image of Andromache led away to do demeaning work for some Greek that most haunts Hector when he foresees defeat; he hopes he is dead before it happens (Il. 6.450–65). As…
Macedonians and Mutiny
Artifice and Alexander History
This book's sources for the reign of Alexander the Great of Macedon are full of set pieces, occasions in which the usually transparent ropes moving people and scenery about in ordinary narrative become evident. This chapter looks at two themes in Alexander history in which it is not so easy to draw the line between what happened and what did not, between the real and the significantly augmented event. It focuses on the series of anecdotes about t…
Macedonians Abroad
Hunting and the Macedonian Elite
Olympias
The definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, this is the first modern biography of Olympias. Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, Elizabeth Carney penetrates myth, fiction and sexual politics and conducts a close examination of Olympias through historical and literary sources, and brings her to life as she places the figure in the context of her …
Symposia and the Macedonian Elite
This paper will evaluate the degree to which, during the reigns of Philip II and Alexander III (an era which produced most of our evidence about Macedonian drinking), court symposia actually differed from those of southern Greece. It will argue that Macedonian drinking practices were distinctive in some significant respects and reflect upon the relationship between these drinking habits and the nature of Macedonian monarchy and elite culture. It …
Suburbanizing Nature and Naturalizing Suburbanites
Landscape architects, consumer magazines, and garden clubs promoted an outdoor-living culture in the West that linked the home with the greater outdoors. This analysis of outdoor-living culture from the 1920s into the postwar decades reveals how rapid suburban growth and native-newcomer tensions shaped middle-class environmental sensibilities and a new western sense of place
Thessalonike, Macedonian
Thessalonike (ca. 342–ca. 295 BCE ), daughter of Philip II of Macedon by Nikesipolis of Pherai (Ath. 11.784c, 13.557c) and thus half‐sister of Alexander III, The Great, became wife to the first non‐Argead ruler of Macedonia, Cassander. Her mother died soon after giving birth to her, and apparently Thessalonike remained, still unmarried, in the entourage of Olympias, until Cassander forced Olympias to surrender at the siege of Pydna in 316 BCE .
Roxane
Roxane (ca. 345–ca. 310 BCE ), daughter of the Bactrian noble and later satrap Oxyartes, married Alexander the Great in 328/7 and bore him a son, Alexander IV, only a few months after his death in 323 (Curt. 10.6.9; Just. Epit . 13.2.5).
Olympias
Olympias (ca. 373–316 BCE ), daughter of Neoptolemos, king of the Molossians, married Philip Ii of Macedon ca. 357 BCE and had two children: Alexander III, The Great and Cleopatra.
Eurydike, wife of Philip Arrhidaios
Adea (ca. 336–16 BCE ), daughter of Kynnane (Philip II of Macedon's daughter by the Illyrian Audata) and of Amyntas, son of Perdikkas III, took the name “Eurydike” when she married (322/1) Philip III Arrhidaios, the half‐brother of Alexander III, The Great (Arr. in FGrH 156 F9.23).
Successful Mediocrity
Successful Mediocrity:The Career of Polyperchon Elizabeth D. Carney Justin (13.1.12–13) famously admired the qualities of Alexander’s generals, observing “For never before that time did Macedonia, or indeed any other nation, produce so rich a crop of brilliant men, men who had been picked out with such care, first by Philip and then by Alexander, that they seemed chosen less as comrades in arms than as successors to the throne” (Yardley 1994, 123…
Basilissa
Basilissa is a title first applied to royal women (kings’ wives and sometimes kings’ daughters) in the early Hellenistic era and designates royal status, not specific powers.
King and Court in Ancient Macedonia
Queenship, Hellenistic
In the Hellenistic era, the roles of royal women became more institutionalized and more defined than previously. Being a basilissa never became an office with a clear job description, but royal women increasingly had widely recognized responsibilities and activities.
Commemoration of a Royal Woman as a Warrior
Despite the recent re-examination of the male and female human remains from tomb II at Vergina, it remains difficult to reconcile the osteological evidence with extant literary evidence about any one of the various royal women who might have been buried in the antechamber of the famous tomb. What does seem clear is that, for reasons of his own, the ruler who interred this woman chose to commemorate her as a woman warrior
Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty
Eurydike (Eurydice), wife of Philip Arrhidaios
Adea (ca. 336–316 bce ), daughter of Kynnane (Philip II of Macedon's daughter by the Illyrian Audata) and of Amyntas, son of Perdikkas III, took the name “Eurydike” when she married (322/1) Philip III Arrhidaios, the half‐brother of Alexander III, the Great. Often acting for her mentally limited husband, she contended with various regents, sometimes addressing the troops in hopes of wresting control of them from the regents. When, however, she le…
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