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Philip II (1492 words) |
 | Born in Pella in 382 BC, he was the youngest son of King Amyntas III of Macedon and Queen Eurydice. |
| In 357 BC he took the Athenian colony, Amphipolis, which commanded the gold-mines of Mount Pangaion. |
| In 357 BC, Philip married to Epirote princess Olympias, the daughter of the king of the Molossians. |
| Olympias (830 words) |
| When her father, Neoptolemos, died (c.360 BC) his brother Arymbas who became king, made a treaty with the new king of Macedonia Philippos II (Philip of Macedon, 360 BC-336 BC). |
| The marriage was stormy and in the fall of 357 BC, Olympias being neglected and in anger went back to Epirus where she spent the winter. |
| Condemned without a hearing, she was put to death (316 BC) by the friends of those whom she had slain, and Cassander is said to have denied her remains the rites of burial. |
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