Elizabeth D. Carney

Professor; Carol K. Brown Endowed Scholar in Humanities

Contact
Department of History
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~elizab/carneyhome.html
Email: elizab@clemson.edu

Education
Ph.D., Duke University (1975)

Courses
Ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt

Professor Carney taught courses in the ancient world, with a special interest in Alexander the Great and ancient Macedonia, the Hellenistic period, and women. She has written dozens of essays on topics as diverse as gender and naming practices, Ptolemaic Egypt, and women and military leadership. In 2008, she hosted an international conference on Alexander at Clemson and in 2010 Oxford University Press published a collection of papers taken from that conference: Philip II, Alexander III: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives. Co-edited with Daniel Ogden. Her most recent monograph is Arsinoë of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York 2013). A collection of her previous articles with updates was published in 2015 by the Classical Press of Wales and Oxford University Press published Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power in 2019. She taught at Clemson from 1973 to 2019. She now lives in Manhattan. She is co-editing Ancient Women and War in the Mediterranean World with Sabine Müller. Her curriculum vitae is available at https://clemson.academia.edu/ElizabethCarney.

Selected Professional Works

Books (Published)

Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power. (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 2019, paper 2022)

Arsinoë of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life (Oxford University Press. New York 2013).

Philip II, Alexander III: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives. Co-edited with Daniel Ogden. (Oxford University Press: New York 2010).

Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great. (Routledge: London and New York 2006).

Women and Monarchy in Macedonia. Univ. of Oklahoma, 2000.

Books (Edited)

The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World, co-edited with Sabine Müller (Oxford and New York, 2021).

Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty. Coedited with Caroline Dunn. (Palgrave MacMillan: Basingstoke, UK, 2018).

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)

“Women in Antigonid Monarchy.” 2021. In E. D. Carney and Sabine Müller (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 307-18.

“Transitional Royal Women: Kleopatra, sister of Alexander the Great, Adea Eurydike, and Phila.” In E. D. Carney and Sabine Müller (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2021, 321-32.

“The First basilissa: Phila, daughter of Antipater and wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes,” In Georgia Tsouvala and Ronnie Ancona (eds.), New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021,45-58.

“Women and War in the Greek World,” In Wiley Companion to Greek Warfare, in Waldemar Heckel, F. S. Naiden, John Vanderspoel, and E.E. Garvin (eds.). London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021, 329-38.

“The end of the Argead Dynasty: Causes and Commemoration.“ Ancient Macedonia 8. (2021) 437-50.

“Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition.” In A Companion to Women in the Ancient World. Blackwell, Sheila Dillon and Sharon James (eds.) Blackwell-Wiley. 2012, 304-314.

Being Royal and Female in the Early Hellenistic Period." In Andrew Erskine and L. Llewellyn-Jones (eds.), Creating the Hellenistic World, Classical Press of Wales, 2011, 195-220.

Royal Skeletal Remains from Tomb I at Vergina." Co-author Antonis Bartsiokas. Deltos: Journal of the History of Hellenic Medicine 36 (2008) 15-19

Symposia and the Macedonian Elite: The Unmixed Life" Syllecta Classica 18 (2007) 129-81.

The Emergence of a Title for Royal Women in the Hellenistic Period, in Women's History and Ancient History (North Carolina, 1991).

The Sisters of Alexander the Great: Royal Relics, in Historia, 1985.