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grbs-16257	Carney, Elizabeth D.	Royal Macedonian Widows: Merry and Not	2019	29	.pdf	application/pdf	10749	367	53	Royal widows could be both agents and tools of com- memoration; commemoration of past rulers could increase the apparent legitimacy of a new ruler.76 As bearers of symbolic capital, royal widows sometimes co-opted the past, and at others 73 McGinn, Widows 9–10, discusses the general fear; on Eurydice see Mortensen, AHB 6 (1992) 156–171; Ogden, Polygamy 11–16; Carney, Women and Monarchy 40–45. 74 See C. Werner, “Wives, Widows and Children: War Victims in Iliad Book II,” AntCl 77 (2008) 1–17. However, the story of Roxane shows that widow marriage for borrowed glory was hardly a rule, though, as I have argued, that she was Alexander’s sexual partner may have been part of the reason no one married her.	cache/grbs-16257.pdf	txt/grbs-16257.txt