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  • (Geschiedenis) .Source 1
    Olympias (in Greek ???µp???, pronounced [olympiás]; lived 3rd century BC) was daughter of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus from his first wife Antigone. She was the wife of her own paternal half-brother Alexander II. After his death about 260 BC she assumed the regency of the kingdom on behalf of her two sons, Pyrrhus II and Ptolemy; and in order to strengthen herself against the Aetolian League she gave before 239 BC her daughter Phthia in marriage to Demetrius II, king of Macedonia. By this alliance she secured herself in the possession of the sovereignty, which she continued to administer till her sons were grown up to manhood, when she resigned it into the hands of Pyrrhus II. But the deaths of that prince and his brother Ptolemy followed in quick succession, and Olympias herself died of grief for her double loss.[1] Such is Justin's statement: according to another account Olympias had poisoned a Leucadian damsel named Tigris, to whom her son Pyrrhus was attached, and was herself poisoned by him in revenge
  • A child of Pyrrhos van Epiros and Antigone van Cyrene
  • This information was last updated on February 16, 2013.

Household of Olympias II van Epiros

Waarschuwing Attention: She shares a parent with her husband (Alexander II van Epiros).

She is married to Alexander II van Epiros.

They got marriedSource 2


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    Sources

    1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympias_II_of_Epirus.htm
    2. http://www.genealogieonline.nl/kwartierstaat-vermaat/I3374.php

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