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Updated: May 5, 2025
Eurydice was a still greater source of annoyance and embarrassment to Antipater than Olympias herself. She was a woman of very masculine turn of mind, and she had been brought up by her mother, Cynane, to martial exercises, such as those to which young men in those days were customarily trained.
There was a lady of the royal family of Macedon named Cynane a daughter of Philip of Macedon, and half-sister of Alexander the Great who had a daughter named Ada. Cynane conceived the design of marrying her daughter to King Philip, who was now, as well as Roxana and her babe, in the hands of Perdiccas as their guardian.
Cynane set out from Macedon with her daughter, on the journey to Asia, in order to carry this arrangement into effect. This was considered as a very bold undertaking on the part of Cynane and her daughter; for Perdiccas would, of course, be implacably hostile to any plan for the marriage of Philip, and especially so to his marrying a princess of the royal family of Macedon.
In fact, as soon as Perdiccas heard of the movement which Cynane was making, he was enraged at the audacity of it, and sent messengers to intercept Cynane and murder her on the way. This transaction, however, as soon as it was known, produced a great excitement throughout the whole of the Macedonian army.
The Greek historian Polybius stands on the border between the Alexandrian age and this next era. He was born about 210 B.C., and died about 128 B.C. A. House of Alexander the Great. Eurydice. | | | + Thessalonica, m. Cassander. | | | + Cynane m. Amyntas. | + ALEXANDER II. | + PERDICCAS III. | + Amyntas, m. Cynane | + Eurydice, m. Philip Arrhidaeus. B. House of Antipater.
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