ABSTRACT
This chapter examines three women (Kleopatra, sister of Alexander, Adea Eurydike, and Phila) whose careers played critical roles in the transition from Argead monarchy to early Hellenistic monarchy. After Alexander’s death, royal women came to play a far more prominent and more institutionalized role in monarchy, particularly in terms of the military, the gendered pairing of monarchic power, and the greater agency possible for royal women because of the unpredictable and rapid changes of the period.
