Olympias 375-316 B.C. Queen of Macedonia
								Alexander's mother.   She was daughter of Neptopolemos. King of Molosses,Epirus, Greece. She is cosidered that she asked the most influence in creation of Alexanders' personality. Alexander was not the only son of Philip, and she was not the only wife of Philip. Therefore there was strong ties between Olympias and Alexander. She was a dynamic woman  but she had also a dark side, a mystic and avenging character.  When she was  young,  she  was  taking part in Dionysiac religious  ceremonies and in the Greek mysteries of Samothrace. In Samothrace she met King Philip. At 358 B.C.  she  was married  with King Philip  2 and she  became  queen  of  Macedonia.They had 2 children, Alexander  356 B.C. and Cleopatra 355 B.C.   When Philip was leaving for war, She was governed  the Macedonian kingdom. Philip helped her brother to take the throne of Epirus. Her relationship with Philip  was not  always very good because Philip married other women later. When Philip married Attalus daughter, Cleopatra, 338 B.C,  Olympias left from Macedonia and she returned to Epirus. At 331 B.C.  she was in battle with Antipatros who was always her enemy, and she ruled Epirus until 319 B.C. She supported the rivals of Cassnadros in Macedonia and she did persecutions against her rivals. In 316 B.C. Cassandros won her in Pydna, he arrested her and killed her. Her  tomb is possibly located in  Macrigialos  Pieria, Greece.
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