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Person Info

Name: Olympias
Sex: F
Death: 315 BC ^d

Parents:

Father:
Neoptolemos King Of Epire Birth: 390 BC Death: 360 BC

Family:
Marriage:

Philip II King Of Macedonia on 357 BC .^m1
Philip II King Of Macedonia Death: 336 BC

Children:

Cleopatra Death: Abt 309 BC
Alexander III The Great King Of Macedonia Birth: 356 BC Death: 323 BC

Bibliography

Dodson, Aiden, and Dylan Hilton, Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004. MCL 932 Dod. Available at http://archive.org/details/AidanDodsonTheCompleteRoyalFamiliesOfAncientEgypt Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Dodson Egypt p[0-9]*].
Settipani, Christian, Nos Ancetres de L'Antiquite, Etudes des possibilites de liens genealogiques entre les familles de l'Antiquite. Paris: Editions Christian, 1991. NYPL #ARB-93-7430. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Settipani LGA p[0-9]*].
Wagner, Anthony, Pedigree and Progress, Essays in the Genealogical Interpretation of History, London, Philmore, 1975. Rutgers Alex CS4.W33. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

father:: [Ref: Settipani LGA p107, Wagner PedigreeProgress #7, Wagner PedigreeProgress #9]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: Dodson Egypt p263]; 316 BC [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #7]

Sources with Information about marriage to Philip II King Of Macedonia

date:: [Ref: Dodson Egypt p263],
names:: [Ref: Wagner PedigreeProgress #7],
child:: [Ref: Dodson Egypt p260, Settipani LGA p107, Wagner PedigreeProgress #9]

Research Notes:
from Epirus [Ref: Dodson Egypt p263]

allegedly responsible for the disability of Philip III and later his murder [Ref: Dodson Egypt p263]

also previously murdered Cleopatra and her son [Ref: Dodson Egypt p263]

condemned to death by a military assembly early in 315 [Ref: Dodson Egypt p263]

Pedigree of Olympias
                                     /-----Ametos King Of Epire
                            /-----(Unk) King Of Epire
                           |        |                  /-----Menekleides Of Pharsalos
                           |        |         /-----Menon I Of Pharsalos
                           |        |        |        |         /-----Echekratidas II
                           |        |        |         \-----(Unk Dau)
                           |        |        |                  \-----Dyseris
                           |         \-----Phthia
                   /-----Tharrypas King Of Epire
          /-----Alkelos King Of Epire
/-----Neoptolemos King Of Epire
Olympias

Descendants of Olympias

1. Olympias m. Philip II King Of Macedonia

m. Philip II King Of Macedonia father: Amyntas III King Of Macedonia mother: Eurydice

2+ Cleopatra m. Alexander I King Of Epirus

3+ Alexander III The Great King Of Macedonia m1. m2. Kleophis Queen Of Assacene m3. Roxane m4. (Unk Dau) Of Paropamisdae m5. Stateira m6. Parysatis m7. Barsine

2nd generation

2. Cleopatra m. Alexander I King Of Epirus

m. Alexander I King Of Epirus father: Neoptolemos King Of Epire

4 Neoptolemus II King Of Epirus

5 Cadmea

3. Alexander III The Great King Of Macedonia m1. m2. Kleophis Queen Of Assacene m3. Roxane m4. (Unk Dau) Of Paropamisdae m5. Stateira m6. Parysatis m7. Barsine

6+ (Unk Dau) m. Achaios Prince Of Syria

m. Kleophis Queen Of Assacene