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⚫ '''Olympias''' (in ] '''Oλυμπιας'''; lived ]) was daughter of ], king of ], and wife of her own brother ]. After his death about ] she assumed the regency of the kingdom on behalf of her two sons, Pyrrhus and ]; and in order to strengthen herself against the ] she gave before ] her daughter ] in marriage to ], king of ]ia. 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.{{rf|1|just_28.3}} Such is ]'s statement: according to another account Olympias had poisoned a ] damsel named Tigris, to whom her son Pyrrhus was attached, and was herself poisoned by him in revenge.{{rf|2|ath_13_phot}}
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⚫ '''Olympias''' (in ] '''Oλυμπιας'''; lived 3rd century BC) was daughter of ], king of ], and wife of her own brother ]. After his death about 260 BC she assumed the regency of the kingdom on behalf of her two sons, Pyrrhus and ]; and in order to strengthen herself against the ] she gave before 239 BC her daughter ] in marriage to ], king of ]ia. 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.{{r|just_28.3}} Such is ]'s statement: according to another account Olympias had poisoned a ] damsel named Tigris, to whom her son Pyrrhus was attached, and was herself poisoned by him in revenge.{{r|ath_13_phot}}


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⚫ {{ent|1|just_28.3}} Justin, ''Epitome of Pompeius Trogus'',
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Olympias (in Greek Oλυμπιας; lived 3rd century BC) was daughter of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, and wife of her own brother Alexander II. After his death about 260 BC she assumed the regency of the kingdom on behalf of her two sons, Pyrrhus 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.(refactored from just_28.3) 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.(refactored from ath_13_phot)

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Template:Ent Justin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, xxliii. 3 Template:Ent Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, xiii. 56; Photius, Bibliotheca, cod. 279

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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