Olympias
historical figure · 6 works · 8 mentions · 12 anchored passages
his mother
in the texts
Orations
Alexander's mother, jestingly compared by Philip and Alexander to the goddess Thetis.
" And Alexander, smiling quietly, said, "To me, father, she seems braver than all the Nereids.
Then Philip asked him again, "But, Alexander, admiring Homer so intensely as you do, how is it that you despise his wisdom?
" Then Diogenes said, "But you know it, if indeed the saying of Olympias is true and you were born of Zeus;
Against Ctesiphon
Macedonian royal figure for whom Anaxinus was allegedly making purchases.
And when at last you were on the point of being impeached by me, did you not contrive the arrest of Anaxinus of Oreus, who was making purchases for Olympias?
On the Nature of the Gods
Mother of Alexander, referenced in the Ephesus temple anecdote.
and, neatly, as Timaeus does many things, who, having said in his history that on the night Alexander was born the temple of Diana at Ephesus burned down, added that this was by no means to be wondered at, since Diana, having wished to be present at the childbed of Olympias, was absent from home.
Against Demosthenes
Alexander the Great's mother, referenced in connection with the political fallout of the Harpalus affair.
to set up a statue of Alexander, the king and god invincible Olympias announced to the people of the charges and made a proclamation about them.
You have induced the whole of Greece to send envoys to Alexander, since they have no other recourse, and have prevented all the satraps, who by themselves would willingly have joined forces with us, each with money and all the troops at his disposal, not merely from revolting from him, by your detention of Harpalus, but also each of them sent by Demosthenes, and with Olympias Callias the Chalcidia …
In Defence of Euxenippus
The Macedonian queen (mother of Alexander), whose name and complaints about Athenian religious dedications at Dodona are invoked in the prosecution's case against Euxenippus.
You will not see Euxenippus classed with a single one of these men anywhere.
for he committed a serious crime in regard to the cup which he allowed Olympias to dedicate to the statue of Health.
it is only here that you hate Olympias so that you can ruin Euxenippus by alleging that he flatters her and the Macedonians.
De Anima
Wife of Philip of Macedon and mother of Alexander, subject of Philip's dream.
Philip of Macedon, not yet a father, had seen that he had sealed his wife Olympias' nature with a ring;