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'''Olympias''', (Ὀλυμπιάς), c. 375–316 BC, was Queen of [[Macedon|Macedonia]], wife to King [[Philip of Macedon|Philip II of Macedonia]] and most notably mother of [[Alexander the Great]] and his full blood sister Cleopatra.  Daughter of king [[Neoptolemus I of Epirus]] she was naturally the sister of [[Alexander I of Epirus]].  During the Wars of the Successors, she was defeated by [[Cassander]] while fighting on behalf of her grandson, the son of [[Alexander the Great]] and effectively executed.

'''Olympias''', (Ὀλυμπιάς), c. 375–316 BC, was Queen of [[Macedon|Macedonia]], wife to King [[Philip of Macedon|Philip II of Macedonia]] and most notably mother of [[Alexander the Great]] and his full blood sister Cleopatra.  Daughter of king [[Neoptolemus I of Epirus]] she was naturally the sister of [[Alexander I of Epirus]].  During the [[Wars of the Diadochi|Wars of the Successors]], she was defeated by [[Cassander]] while fighting on behalf of her grandson, the son of [[Alexander the Great]] and effectively executed.

History has proven her to have been 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<ref>Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander, Book 1, Par. 23</ref>.  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, Book 1, Par. 24</ref>  Thereby helping to ascend 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.<ref>Quintus Curtius Rufus - History of Alexander, Book 1 Par. 25</ref>

History has proven her to have been 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<ref>Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander, Book 1, Par. 23</ref>.  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, Book 1, Par. 24</ref>  Thereby helping to ascend 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.<ref>Quintus Curtius Rufus - History of Alexander, Book 1 Par. 25</ref>