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'''Olympias''' was a [[Greek]] queen, mother of [[Alexander the Great]] and a powerful political figure.  It is believed that she was involved in the assassination of [[Philip of Macedon]], the powerful military leader of Macedon at that time and the father of Alexander the Great.  With the death of Philip, her son went on to conquer the entire [[Persian Empire]] and become perhaps the greatest military leader in history.  Alexander himself, it is believed, did not take part in the plot.

'''Olympias''', Queen of [[Macedon|Macedonia]], wife to King [[Philip of Macedon|Philip of Macedonia]] and most notably mother of [[Alexander the Great]].

 

Herself a princess of Epirus, she was a powerful political figure: commonly attributed as the mastermind to her own husband's assassination when she placed a golden crown on the now crucified assassin's head.  But she didn't stop there, she compelled Philip's new queen Cleopatra to hang herself and may even have personally burned the new child heir alive herself.<ref>Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander</ref>  Thereby ascending her son Alexander to the throne.  Plutarch<ref>Plutach, Life of Alexander</ref> and Quintus agree that Alexander may well have been accessory to the plot by reciting a specific poetic line to the assassin to be.

 

Olympias lived at a crucial time for Greece in which under her husband's reign, the Greek city states were first fused into a single entity which could then be wielded by her son Alexander in the conquest of the [[Persian Empire]].

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