Despite the small corpus of Ancient sources we have about Argead Macedonia’s royal successory customs, some details of our informations allow us to consider the use of marriages by the Macedonian King with a young wife as a potential way to determine his successor, as far as when the King died, he who could marry his last wife would be, in fact, a clear candidate for succession. We know indeed some examples about this practice, but maybe this examples can help us to understand Philip II’s last marriage with Cleopatra, Attalus’ niece, as a way to arrange succession for Alexander the Great, by the chance of marrying himself with Cleopatra-Eurydice. Alexander’s refuse to do so can be considered just an answer to Macedonian intrigues at court.A...
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In the Antigonid dynasty, the heir of the throne was the eldest son of the king and the designation ...
The year 310 B.C. witnessed the extinction of the Argead line. Cassander had ordered the murder of Y...
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Classical sources are rich in data about the Successor to the throne in the Achaemenid Empire. Thank...
Dynastic marriages in the Hellenistic world were an important diplomatic tool that provided distinc...
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The Macedonian campaign in Asia led by Alexander the Great provided an enormous amount of profit. Th...
Traditionally, the belief has been that the Hellenistic kings began to shave their beards following ...
The political relations between Austrasia and the Visigothic kingdom had resulted in the marriage of...
En este artículo se analiza el problema de la sucesión al trono en el Imperio Bizantino desde el sig...
Exemplar dedicat a: Miscellanea philologica et epigraphica Marco Mayer oblataA pesar del pequeño cor...
The successor’s figure in the Temenid house tends in historical times to be established by means of ...
The year 310 B.C. witnessed the extinction of the Argead line. Cassander had ordered the murder of Y...
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Gentium; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ms...
In the Antigonid dynasty, the heir of the throne was the eldest son of the king and the designation ...
The year 310 B.C. witnessed the extinction of the Argead line. Cassander had ordered the murder of Y...
Amyntas III became king of Macedonia in 394/3 bce after a six-year dynastic struggle. He was the gra...
Resumen: En el contexto de la Antigüedad Tardía, intentamos dilucidar el papel de las mujeres en la ...
Classical sources are rich in data about the Successor to the throne in the Achaemenid Empire. Thank...
Dynastic marriages in the Hellenistic world were an important diplomatic tool that provided distinc...
The history of the final years of Lysimachos and his relationship with his Ptolemaic wife, Arsinoe, ...
The Macedonian campaign in Asia led by Alexander the Great provided an enormous amount of profit. Th...
Traditionally, the belief has been that the Hellenistic kings began to shave their beards following ...
The political relations between Austrasia and the Visigothic kingdom had resulted in the marriage of...
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