ABSTRACT
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 complicates this perception of a relatively limited role for royal women in Antigonid Macedonian monarchy.
