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Historical person
337 BCE–318 BCE
Eurydice II of Macedon was a royal woman of the Argead dynasty who became involved in the violent succession struggles after Alexander the Great’s death. Her opposition to Olympias and support for Philip III Arrhidaeus placed her at the centre of early Hellenistic dynastic conflict.
Mary Renault’s Funeral Games places Eurydice II of Macedon within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and military command and battlefield decision-making.
In non-fiction, Eurydice II of Macedon is discussed in Diodorus Siculus’s The Library, Books 16-20. In Diodorus Siculus’s The Library, Books 16-20, Book 16 traces Philip II’s transformation of Macedon from a vulnerable kingdom into the dominant power of Greece, placing the Sacred War, the struggle for Greek alliances and the Battle of Chaeronea beside upheavals in Sicily.
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Series
The Alexander trilogy follows Alexander from childhood at the Macedonian court through the conquest of the Achaemenid Empire and into the violent struggle that followed his death. Fire from Heaven concentrates on his formation under Philip II, Olympias and Aristotle; The Persian Boy narrates the later campaigns through…
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