Women and Dunasteia in Caria

Abstract

. This article considers the role of Hecatomnid women in the public presentation of the dynasty. It examines the rule and co-rule of women in Caria, the reasons for the dynasty's practice of sibling marriage, the dynasty's apparent indifference to the creation of heirs, and the impact of the role of Hecatomnid women on the Hellenistic dynasties. It argues that the position of women in the Hecatomnid dynasty was a function of a family dynamic and image shaped by the precarious nature of rule in the region, particularly by the dynasty's subordination to its Persian overlords.

The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities

“…65 Carney argues that these full brother-sister marriages were directly linked to the role of Artemisia and Ada as rulers in their own right. The children of Hekatomnos formed two pairs of full brother-sister spouses who ruled jointly, Mausolos and Artemisia and Idrieos and Ada, and in both cases the widows ruled after their brother-husbands' deaths, Artemisia from 353/2 to 351/0 and Ada from 344/3 to c.341/0.…”

The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities

“…The children of Hekatomnos formed two pairs of full brother-sister spouses who ruled jointly, Mausolos and Artemisia and Idrieos and Ada, and in both cases the widows ruled after their brother-husbands' deaths, Artemisia from 353/2 to 351/0 and Ada from 344/3 to c.341/0. 65 Carney argues that these full brother-sister marriages were directly linked to the role of Artemisia and Ada as rulers in their own right. Neither marriage produced children nor had any involvement in courtly sexual intrigues, as with the Ptolemies, and so the function of Artemisia and Ada as wives of their brothers was instead a matter of exercising their right to rule.…”

“…Neither marriage produced children nor had any involvement in courtly sexual intrigues, as with the Ptolemies, and so the function of Artemisia and Ada as wives of their brothers was instead a matter of exercising their right to rule. 66 In the Macedonian kingdom also there was a sense that dynasteia, ruling authority, passed through both the female and male lines of a family, and that royal women were sometimes equal players on the field of dynastic politics. 67 For Antiochos and Laodike, to take up fictive sibling language in their mutual praise of each other, and to marry their eldest son and daughter to each other, fits the Hekatomnid pattern as a strategy for elevating the ruling authority of the Seleukid dynasty across its generations and genders.…”

Karia da Kadınların Kamusal Rolünü Artıran Unsurlar

“…30 Hekatomnos hanedanındaki kardeş evlilikleri için bk. Hornblower 1982, 358-363;Carney 2005, 81-84. Hornblower (1982, ısrarla yabancı bir köken aradığı bu evliliklerin başlamasında Mısır firavunlarının kız kardeşleriyle evlenme geleneklerinin ya da Perslerin, hatta üçüncü bir seçenek olarak da Hititlerin etkisinin olabileceğini düşünür.…”