{"slug": "olympias", "label": "Olympias", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympias", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223134", "qid": "Q223134", "description": "mother of Alexander the Great", "entries": 11, "years": 8, "span": [-375, -307], "span_label": ["376 BCE", "308 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "alexander-the-great", "label": "Alexander the Great", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "cassander", "label": "Cassander", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "philip-ii-of-macedon", "label": "Philip II of Macedon", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "epirus", "label": "Epirus", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "peloponnesus", "label": "Peloponnesus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "polyperchon", "label": "Polyperchon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ptolemy-i-soter", "label": "Ptolemy I Soter", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "illyria", "label": "Illyria", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -375, "year_label": "376 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Olympias, wife of king Philip II of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great (d. 316 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305121209#Births", "title": "376 BC", "revid": 1305121209, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -356, "year_label": "357 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Philip II of Macedon marries Olympias, the Molossian princess of Epirus thus helping to stabilize Macedonia's western frontier.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210250153#Macedonia", "title": "357 BC", "revid": 1210250153, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": -336, "year_label": "337 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Olympias is put aside by her husband Philip II, following Philip's marriage to a girl named Cleopatra (who is renamed Eurydice). Their son, Alexander, is effectively disowned by Philip's actions. Philip II has Ptolemy, along with other companions of his son, exiled.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373385964#Greece", "title": "337 BC", "revid": 1373385964, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -335, "year_label": "336 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Following Philip II of Macedon's marriage to Eurydice, Alexander and his mother, Olympias, flee to Epirus, with Alexander later moving to Illyria. However, shortly afterward, father and son are reconciled and Alexander returns; but his position as heir is tenuous.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172867#Macedonia", "title": "336 BC", "revid": 1354172867, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": -318, "year_label": "319 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Alexander the Great's widow, Roxana, joins Alexander's mother, Olympias, in Epirus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1222246653#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "319 BC", "revid": 1222246653, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -316, "year_label": "317 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Polyperchon flees to Epirus, where he joins Alexander the Great's mother Olympias, Alexander's widow Roxana, and Alexander's infant son Alexander IV. He forms an alliance with Olympias, who is acting as regent for Alexander IV, and King Aeacides of Epirus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173231#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "317 BC", "revid": 1354173231, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -316, "year_label": "317 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "While Cassander is occupied in the Peloponnesus, Olympias leads an army into Macedonia. She is initially successful, defeating the army of King Philip III Arrhidaeus and capturing King Philip and his wife, Eurydice, as well as Cassander's brother, Nicanor. She then has them murdered.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173231#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "317 BC", "revid": 1354173231, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -315, "year_label": "316 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cassander returns from the Peloponnesus and defeats Macedonia's regent Polyperchon in battle. Cassander blockades Olympias, mother of the late Alexander the Great, in Pydna, where she surrenders. Cassander takes Roxana and her son Alexander IV of Macedon into his custody.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1007737454#Greece", "title": "316 BC", "revid": 1007737454, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -315, "year_label": "316 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Olympias is condemned to death by Cassander, but his soldiers refuse to carry out the sentence. She is eventually killed by relatives of those she has previously had executed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1007737454#Greece", "title": "316 BC", "revid": 1007737454, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -315, "year_label": "316 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Olympias, Epirote princess, wife of Macedonian king Philip II and the mother of Alexander the Great (b. c. 376 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1007737454#Deaths", "title": "316 BC", "revid": 1007737454, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -307, "year_label": "308 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Cleopatra of Macedon, sister of Alexander the Great and daughter of King Philip II of Macedon and Olympias (b. c. 356 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358626493#Deaths", "title": "308 BC", "revid": 1358626493, "section": "Deaths"}}]}