biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (c.375–316 BC)
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| biography:
| Wife of Philip II of Macedon, mother of Alexander the Great, and daughter of Neoptolemus of Epirus. When Philip married Cleopatra, niece of Attalus, she left Macedon and ruled Epirus by herself, and is said to have murdered Cleopatra after Philip was assassinated (336 BC). Alexander died in 323 BC, and she returned to Macedon, where she secured the death of his half-brother and successor, and made Alexander's posthumous son, Alexander IV, king. Eventually Cassander besieged her in Pydna, and she was killed by relatives of those she had put to death. |
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