When Two Women Fought for the Throne of Alexander the Great

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When Two Women Fought for the Throne of Alexander the Great

The mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, and his niece, Eurydice, fought for his throne. Photo of statues of Alexander and Olympias. Credit: PictureObelix CC BY-SA 3.0 The death of Alexander the Great sparked a war for his throne among several contenders, with perhaps the most unlikely among them being two women, his mother Olympias and his niece Eurydice. Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemus I, King of Epirus, and wife of King Philip II of Mac…