Olympiad (Oldports) (About 375-316 BCE) – The third wife of the Macedonian king Philip ⅱ (from the summer of 357 BCE) and the mother of Alexander ⅲ Macedonian (23. ⅶ 356 PR.N. is.). She was the daughter of the epirite king Neotolem. Philip ⅱ fell in love with her at a self-stay at the time of the holiday of the cabbers. In marriage entered into the conclusion of the Macedonian Union with Epirus. From this marriage, the daughter of Cleopatra was born (355 BCE). After the marriage of the husband (337 BCE) with Cleopatra, the granddaughter of the Macedonian nobleman Atal, persecuted or self-sufficiently sheltered with the relatives of the epirite yard. After the assassination of the husband and the enthroning of the throne of the son of Aleksandar, he returned to Pela, having a significant role in the yard. In the liquidations for securing the throne, she personally killed the possessed daughter of Cleopatra, and she forced her to commit suicide. It also had significant participation in the struggles for the death of Son Aleksandar ⅲ Macedonian. As a tutor of her grandson – the juvenile Alexander ⅳ, for securing the throne ordered the liquidation of the rearnic Philip ⅲ Ariday and his wife Adia-Eurydice (317 BCE). Her vengeance enemy Cassander managed to capture her in a pine and after his order was liquidated. Not.: Plutarzhi, Vitala Parallele, Lipsiae, 1921; Padsaniae, Graeciae Desriptyio, Lipsiae, 1903; Justini, Historiaum PiLeppypeptum Edge Thread Pompeiio, Parisiis, Mdcaccji,; Diodors, Biblehead Historica, Leithzig, 1896. Lit.: N. Proceed, history of Argian, Skopje, 2004; F. Papazoglu, History of the Hellenistic period, Skopje 1995. K. M.R. Party Conference of OMO “Ilinden” & Pirin
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