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Updated: September 6, 2025
Olympias, who, of course, better than all others knew the facts of the case, used jestingly to say, that "she wished Alexander would cease from incessantly embroiling her with Jupiter's wife."
It was the only course of safety for them, as well as for him, since they that is, the friends to whom Cassander was making these proposals had all been friends of Antipater; and Olympias, whom Polysperchon was about to take into his counsels, hated the very name of Antipater, and would evince, undoubtedly, the most unrelenting hostility to all whom she should consider as having been his friends.
Consternation produced by the elephants. Plan of defense against them. The iron spikes. Olympias finally concludes to go to Macedon. Eurydice's troops desert her. Olympias in her chariot. Eurydice is captured. She is sent to a dungeon. Death of Philip. Eurydice's despair. he cell. Eurydice's dreadful end. Cassander's movements. Olympias acts in the most energetic manner. The siege of Pydna.
And this sport of chance could not but be amazing to any one who did not know as neither of the three who were examining the gem knew that it was a work of Heron's youth, and that he had given Roxana the features of his bride Olympias, whose living image her daughter Melissa had grown to be. "And how long have you had this work of art?" asked Philostratus.
After having conquered Asia, and proclaimed himself to the people as the son of Jupiter, with the exception of Olympias, who knew what all this meant, and Aristotle, and a few Athenian pedants, the entire Orient believed him.
His father Philip, being in Samothrace, when he was quite young, fell in love there with Olympias, in company with whom he was initiated in the religious ceremonies of the country, and her father and mother being both dead, soon after, with the consent of her brother Arymbas, he married her.
Philip married another woman, named Cleopatra, partly, indeed, as a measure of political alliance, and partly as an act of hostility and hatred against Olympias, whom he accused of the most disgraceful crimes. Olympias went home to Epirus in a rage, and sought refuge in the court of her brother. Alexander, her son, was left behind at Macedon at this separation between his father and mother.
This was very true; but, unfortunately for Olympias, Cassander was aware of this fact as well as she, and, instead of waiting for the troops of Æacides to come and attack him, he had sent a large armed force to the confines between Epirus and Macedon, to intercept these expected allies in the passes of the mountains. This movement was successful.
Her father, husband, and her son were kings, Her brother and forefathers were the same; And she in Greece Olympias was called. And, in short, we may aptly transfer what Simonides said of painting to dancing, and call dancing mute poetry, and poetry speaking dancing; for poesy doth not properly belong to painting, nor painting to poesy, neither do they any way make use of one another.
The friends of the family of Antipater were now clamorous in their demands that Olympias should be brought to punishment for having so atrociously murdered the sons and relatives of Antipater while she was in power. Olympias professed herself willing to be tried, and appealed to the Macedonian senate to be her judges.
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