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Grecia

title: PORTRAIT OF OLYMPICS

subject date: 2004-05-19

caption: OLYMPIAS (375 - 316 BC), Epirote princess born Myrtale, third wife of Philip II of Macedon; exiled by her husband in 357 BC, she was soon recalled to court upon the news of her pregnancy, from which Alexander (the Great) was born in 356 BC; at the same time Philip gave her the name Olympias, to celebrate his victory in the Olympic Games. The couple then gave birth to Cleopatra. After Philip's fourth marriage, their relationship was definitively ruined, Olympias retired to Epirus with her brother Alexander I until the wedding of her daughter Cleopatra, during which the king was killed by his bodyguard Pausanias of Orestis, perhaps out of personal grudges, perhaps because of a plot in which Olympias was not entirely unconnected. After helping Alexander to free himself from rivals in the succession, she was also ousted from places of power by her son, while maintaining normal family relationships. Profile portrait from a gold medallion from the Roman era, 3rd century.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Grecia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

file date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 53311

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

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continent: Europa

image century : III a.C.

image epoch: Antica Roma

subject century: IV a.C.

subject epoch: Antica Grecia

technique: Medaglia

id: 27551

file name: FSNgilardi_53311.jpg

keywords

OlympicsEpirus OlympicsMyrtleAncient RomemedalAncient GreeceMacedoniaPhilip IIAlexander the GreatAncient GreeceantiquitiesAncient RomeProfilenumismaticsgoldsmith's