ABSTRACT
Argead monarchy was the rule of a clan. All of its members represented their house and helped to propagate its image and ideology as its agents. The clan nature of Argead rule shaped the roles and spaces of action of royal women. Individual Argead women became visible beyond marriage policy and reproduction in the fields of politics, diplomacy, succession advocacy, communal welfare (euergetism), patronage, and war. Presumably, their roles also encompassed cultic aspects. Unfortunately, the evidence is extremely poor. Greek and Roman literary sources perceive royal women in a biased way from the outside. The visibility of some Argead women in political and occasionally military matters did not conform to their perceptions of female roles. Their biased depictions have to be deconstructed.
