Olympias

Family: Macedonian · Role: queen · First appears: Eumenes

Eumenes

with Eumenes (Olympias invited Eumenes to assume protection of the royal child) “from Olympias, inviting him thither, to take the charge and protection of Alexander's infant son”

married with Philip “he married her”
siblings with Arymbas “with the consent of her brother Arymbas, he married her”
elder kin: Leonidas “Leonidas, a near kinsman of Olympias”
child: Alexander “Eratosthenes says that Olympias, when she attended Alexander on his way to the army in his first expedition”
rivals with Cleopatra “Even at home, Olympias and Cleopatra had raised a faction against Antipater, and divided his government between them”
rivals with Antipater “Olympias and Cleopatra had raised a faction against Antipater”
elder kin: Arymbas “with the consent of her brother Arymbas”
enemies with Philip “the violence of Olympias, a woman of a jealous and implacable temper, made wider, by exasperating Alexander against his father”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.