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41. See Carney 2006, 181, n. 78 for discussion and references on the
authenticity of this oracular consultation.
42. Whitehead 2000: 228 provides references for the common Greek
view that whoever wielded power in an area controlled the sanctuaries
in it.
43. See Connelly 2007: 211–13, especially n. 96.
44. According to Justin 9.7.10–11, Olympias appeared at Aegae under
the guise of doing her duty at the funeral of her husband, cremated the
remains of Philip’s assassin, placed them over the tumulus of her husband,
and later arranged a tomb for the assassin and annual sacrifi ce
there. In respect to her conspirator’s corpse, her actions resemble the conventional
funerary responsibilities of ordinary Greek women. The “facts”
of Justin’s narrative are implausible— public celebration of Philip’s assassin—but
its presumptions are suggestive.
45. On female burials generally, see Carney 2000a: 234–44. On the
female burial in the antechamber of Tomb II at Vergina, see Carney 1991b;
on the “Tomb of Eurydice” with its gigantic throne, see Andronikos 1994:
154–61. For the female archaic burials that are likely royal, see Kottaridi
2004a: 139–48.
46. Hatzopoulos 1982a: 37–42. See also Carney 2006: 181, n.76.
47. Ael. V.H. 8.7; Arr. 7.4.4.4–8; Just. 12.10.9–10.
48. See Carney 2000a: 205 for discussion and references.
49. Oakley and Sinos 1993: 16 stress the importance of the bride’s
adornment. Reeder 1995: 168 notes that brides are usually shown with
jewelry and says (176) that the bride “would have glowed as a precious
jewel herself . . . .”
50. Oakley and Sinos 1993: 22. Kuttner 1999: 116 asserts that any
elite marriage was meant to be a spectacle and refers to Aetion’s image
of Alexander and Roxane’s wedding, a painting intended to be shown at
the Olympics (Lucian Herodotus sive Aetion 4–7). Lucian, who claimed
to have seen the painting, describes the bride as beautiful, but with
downcast eyes and wearing a veil that she removed for Alexander.
51. The anakalyptēria: Oakley and Sinos 1993: 25 see the initial unveiling
as happening in front of the wedding guests.
52. See references in Carney 2000a: 203–07.
53. See Borza 1990: 102 and Ogden 1999: 274.
54. Hoepfner 1996: 13–15 suggests that the double andron pattern
found in the palace at Vergina/Aegae, perhaps in private houses at Pella,
and else where in Macedonia, may have been intended for separate but
parallel male and female symposia (a particularly interesting suggestion
if the Vergina palace is Philip II’s work).
55. Kottaridi 2004a: 140 and 2004b: 69; Lilibaki-Akamati 2004: 91.
Their conclusions are based primarily on material remains from burials.