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	Olympias: The Mother
		Olympias was the orphaned daughter of the king of Epirus, now modern Albania.
		The area from which Olympias came was considered barbaric, and her practice of Dionysian rituals did little to convince Philip and other Macedonians otherwise.
		Olympias and Alexander had deep feelings for each other, perhaps more substantial than normal mother-son connections.
	wso.williams.edu /~junterek/olympias.htm (203 words)

	Olympias - LoveToKnow 1911
		OLYMPIAS, daughter of Neoptolemus, king of Epirus, wife of Philip II.
		The fickleness of Philip and the jealous temper of Olympias led to a growing estrangement, which became complete when Philip married a new wife, Cleopatra, in 337.
		During the absence of Alexander, with whom she regularly corresponded on public as well as domestic affairs, she had great influence, and by her arrogance and ambition caused such trouble to the regent Antipater that on Alexander's death (323) she found it prudent to withdraw into Epirus.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Olympias (343 words)

	Olympias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Olympias was daughter of Neoptolemus, king of Epirus.
		The alliance was cemented with a diplomatic marriage: Arymbas' niece Olympias became queen of Macedonia in 359 BC.
		Olympias took the field with an Epirote army in an attempt to drive Cassander, Antipater's son, from power in Macedon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olympias (658 words)

	St. Olympias
		As Olympias was not thirty years of age in 390, she cannot have been born before 361.
		Olympias resigned herself wholly to Chrysostom's direction, and placed at his disposal ample sums for religious and charitable objects.
		The feast of St. Olympias is celebrated in the Greek Church on 24 July, and in the Roman Church on 17 December.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/o/olympias,saint.html (588 words)

	Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal ...
		Olympias (2), the younger, widow; a celebrated deaconess of the church of Constantinople, 767the most eminent of the band of holy and high-born women whom Chrysostom gathered round him.
		Olympias was brought before the prefect Optatus, who bluntly demanded why she had set the church on fire.
		We gather from them that Olympias was subject to frequent and severe attacks of sickness, and that the 768persecution of the party of Arsacius and Atticus was violent and unsparing.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/wace/biodict.html?term=Olympias,%20the%20younger (1196 words)

	Olympias - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Plutarch and Justin absurdly ascribe to these suspicions the estrangement that subsequently arose between Philip and Olympias, for which the numerous amours of the former, and the passionate and jealous character of the latter are amply sufficient to account.
		Olympias, in consequence, continued to live, as it were, in exile in Epirus until the death of her old enemy Antipater (319 BC) presented a new opening to her ambition.
		Not content with this unnecessary act of cruelty, Olympias followed up her vengeance by the execution of Nicanor, the brother of Cassander, as well as of an hundred of his leading partisans among the Macedonian nobles, and even wreaked her fury upon the lifeless remains of his brother Iollas.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Olympias (1274 words)

	Olympias
		It is true, Philip appointed Olympias' brother Alexander -not to be confused with her more famous son- as king of Molossis (350), but this does not mean that Olympias was behind the arrangement.
		It seems that he and Olympias were not on speaking terms, and the queen-mother must have been glad that she could go back to Molossis in 330: her brother had died during a campaign in southern Italy, and she served as regent for her cousin Aeacidas.
		However, Cassander was approaching and besieged Olympias in Pydna, a harbor town at the foot of the holy mountain Olympus.
	www.livius.org /oa-om/olympias/olympias.htm (994 words)

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		The fate of Olympias, the facts and circumstances beyond her control, is being born a woman, a queen, daughter of kings, wife of a king, mother of kings, the legend of being a descendant of gods, in a patriarchal society with the social customs and practices of male monarchs.
		Olympias is a high-born woman with the constraining ties of blood and clan.
		Her fate is determined by the facts and circumstances beyond her control, being born to be a queen, a daughter, wife and mother of kings, and a legendary descendant of gods.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /olympias/olympiasopera.htm (1281 words)

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