Modern historians about Macedonia – Elizabeth Donnelly Carney

 

Macedonian monarchy despite its origins in the remote border regions of the Greek world,had a very broad impact and influence on the political institutions of the rest of the ancient world.

The part royal women played in Macedonian monarchy had a similary long life in political history.

The conquests of Philip II (359-356 B.C) and those of his son,Alexander III,commonly know as Alexander the Great(336 -323),built an empire that stretched from northern Greece to the borders of modern India.

 

Elizabeth Donnelly Carney,Women and Monarchy in Macedonia,University of Oklahoma Press,page 4