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Olympias was the daughter of Neoptolemus the king of Epirus, now modern Albania. According to Plutarch she was descended from Achilles. The only surviving picture of her is on a coin of the period and there is no doubt that she was a very beautiful woman. She was, however, ruthless and vindictive with an obsessive love for her son Alexander the great.
In 359 B.C. Olympias married Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great was born in 356 B.C. The marriage was blighted by Philip II's philandering and by the jealous temper of Olympias. When Philip II married Cleopatra in 337, Olympias took Alexander to Epirus and did not return until after the assassination of Philip. Despite the close bond between Olympias and Alexander the Great, he was to leave her in 334 B.C when he was aged twenty-one and was never to see her again.
Alexander appointed Antipater as regent of Macedon during his absence. However, Olympias by her arrogance, ambition and ruthlessness soon made an enemy of Antipater. After the death Of Alexander his half brother Arrhidaeus and his son Alexander IV were proclaimed kings with Cassander, the son of Antipater, as regent. In 316 B.C. Cassander condemned Olympias to death and is said to have denied her the rites of burial.
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What was Curtius views on Alexander the Great?
Alexander the great was a good man, loved his wife and kids and loved your anuses mother
Who died first Alexander the Great or achili es?
Alexander the Great died over 1000 years after the hero of the Iliad did. Alexander the Great was a descendant of Achilles on his mother's side ( Olympias).
Did Alexander the great have a kid?
Yes, Alexander IV, he lived from 323-309bc before he and his mother were assassinated.
Was there any sexual relation of Alexander the great with his mother Olympias?
no. ok
What was something great about Alexander the great's mother?
Alexanders mother was Phillips ( Alexander's dad) 4th wife. Her name was Olympias and she was the daughter of Neoptolemus l, the king of Epirus. Olympias was the prime wife of seven to Phillip.
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Philip II ruined his relationship with his son, Alexander the Great, by rejecting Alexander's mother who was a Greek from Epirus and marrying another woman who was a Greek from Macedonia. Alexander, and especially his mother, felt that Alexander would no longer be in line to inherit the throne should Philip II die with an heir that was a full Macedonian Greek. There have been speculations that Alexander had killed his father but in light of this reason, it has been proposed that it was Alexander's mother that may have arraigned to assassinate Philip, not Alexander.
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