Alexander’s mother, Olympias, was a remarkable and hugely influential figure in ancient Macedonian-Greek history. Born around 375 BC, she belonged to the noble Epirote Molossian dynasty (ancient Epirus) andmarried king Philip II of Macedon, cementing a strategic alliance between the two kingdoms...
In 323 in Babylon, Alexander, dying of disease or poison, said he willed his empire “to the strongest.” Alexander’s erstwhile buddy Cassander killed Alexander’s wife and mother and named himself King of Macedonia. Ptolemy took Alexander’s corpse to Egypt and there started the Ptolemaic Dy...