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OLYMPIAS , daughter of See also:Neoptolemus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Epirus, wife of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II. of Macedon, and See also:mother of See also:Alexander the See also:Great. Her See also:father claimed descent from See also:Pyrrhus, son of See also:Achilles. It is said that Philip See also:fell in love with her in See also:Samothrace, where they were both being initiated into the mysteries (See also:Plutarch, Alexander, 2). The See also:marriage took See also:place in 359 B.C., shortly after Philip's See also:accession, and Alexander was See also:born in 356. The fickleness of Philip and the jealous See also:temper of Olympias led to a growing estrangement, which became See also:complete when Philip married a new wife, See also:Cleopatra, in 337. Alexander, who sided with his mother, withdrew, along with her, into Epirus, whence they both returned in the following See also:year, after the assassination of Philip, which Olympias is said to have countenanced. During the See also:absence of Alexander, with whom she regularly corresponded on public as well as domestic affairs, she had great See also:influence, and by her arrogance and ambition caused such trouble to the See also:regent See also:Antipater that on Alexander's See also:death (323) she found it prudent to withdraw into Epirus. Here she remained until 317, when, allying herself with See also:Polyperchon, by whom her old enemy had been succeeded in 319, she took the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field with an Epirote See also:army; the opposing troops at once declared in her favour, and for a See also:short See also:period Olympias was See also:mistress of See also:Macedonia. See also:Cassander, Antipater's son, hastened from See also:Peloponnesus, and, after an obstinate See also:siege, compelled the surrender of Pydna, where she had taken See also:refuge. One of the terms of the See also:capitulation had been that her See also:life should be spared; but in spite of this she was brought to trial for the numerous and cruel executions of which she had been guilty during her short See also:lease of See also:power. Condemned without a See also:hearing, she was put to death (316) by the See also:friends
XX. 4of those whom she had slain, and Cassander is said to have denied her remains the See also:rites of See also:burial.
See Plutarch, Alexander, 9, 39, 68; See also:Justin, vii. 6, ix. 7, xiv. 5, 6; See also:Arrian, Anab. vii. 12; Diod. Sic. xviii. 49-65, xix. 11-51; also the
articles ALEXANDER III. THE GREAT and MACEDONIAN See also:EMPIRE.
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