Women in the Macadonian Army

Olympias was able to channel power in the here and now through ghosts. It's rare to see women exerting themselves on the global geopolitical stage, especially before modern times but they're out there. Elizabeth Carney called this period the brisk post Alexander elite macadonian marriage market. After Alexander dies, you have a mass rush of all these various macadonian royal clans marrying into each other for diplomatic purposes.