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Olympias
helped the deification of Alexander by reporting that his father was Zeus, rather than Philip, right before he invaded Asia
When in Molossia with Cleopatra (daughter) she received grain tribute lists from Cyrene (RO 96) that referred to her as if a leader of state in Molossia - probable that the two women ruled here together
may have been responsible for the 'demotion' of Antimatter when Craterus was given the Regency instead - Arrian book 7 says she sent letters to Alexander that may have swayed him against Antipater - her opinion mattered
when Antipater died in 319BC, on his death bed he warned against allowing a female to rule the state, probs a jab at Olympias, shows she was a threat (Diodorus book XIX)
when Polyperchon urged her to return to Macedonia in 317BC, she did so at the front of an army
when Cassander eventually defeated her, the Macedonian soldiers refused to kill her and Cassander had to enlist the relatives of those she had killed to do so
that she met such a violent death, and was frequently called upon to aid ascension crises, demonstrates her perceived power as a relative of Alexander, despite being a woman. She was highly influential in the Macedonian court, and was killed for it
Persian Women
after Issues, Darius' mother, wife, and two daughters were kept as hostages in Alexander's camp
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Darius' wife may have died in childbirth, according to Plutarch, but Alexander gave her a splendid funeral befitting her status as King's wife
Alexander married Roxana, a Bactrian, in 327BC, and the marriage 'fit in quite well with the policy he was pursuing' (Plutarch) of bonding with the East
Mass wedding at Susa
in 324BC, there were mass marriages at Susa, a grand ceremonial banquet
Hephaestion married Darius' daughter, Perdiccas a daughter of the satrap of Media etc.
these marriages intend to show that the new ruling class of his empire would be a combination of the Persian and Macedonian elite
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Roxana was eventually killed with her son, Alexander IV, in 310BC, by Cassander. He was clearly eliminating them as a threat.
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