Figure 1: Eurydice’s tomb at Aigai (source: vergina.web.auth.gr) Macedonia and the other Greek cities. It was now Philip’s turn to rule.fit.2°Figure 7: Expansion of Macedonia before and under Philip II's reign (Source: Roisman 2010, map 3) the house of the Theban general Pammenes, his assumed lover, when he was a hostage there.”A statue base (see Figure 9), dated to the second or third c. AD, has been found in a house at the city of Thessalonike, bearing the inscription Oeooddoviknv Piditrou BaoiAiooav (IG X 2.1 277). Along with it, two more incised statue bases have been revealed, one for Alexander Ill (IG X 2.1 275) and one for his son, Alexander IV (IG X 2.1 276) where both of them are referred to as the son of a god. All three statue bases probably hosted statues that depicted them which could mean that cults existed in their honor during that ————————————————— °° According to a Greek legend, when Thessalonike heard that Alexander had died tried to drown herself in the sea. Instead of dying, she became a mermaid as her brother had bathed her hair with immortal water from the Fountain of Immortality. From that moment, she wandered in the Aegean and asked the sailors: “Is Alexander the King alive?” If they answered "He lives and reigns and conquers the world", she allowed the ship to sail, if not she made it sink. (www.wikipedia.org).Figure 10: The Kingdom of Macedonia in 336BC including Molossia (source: https://en.wikipedia.org)men, Fate placed me at the age of three a corpse beneath this tomb." "Aeacid is my race,-my father, Neoptolemus,-my name, Alcimachus,-of those (descended) from Olympias. As a child whose intelligence was equal to that of man Fata nlarad ma at tha ana of thraa 9 ceonrneca hanaath thie tamh "Figure 13: SEG 32.644 (source: Oikonomos 1915, no. 65 39-40) G.P. Oikonomos published one more inscription (SEG 32.644) referring to theFigure 18: Vienna cameo (source: Kunst Historiches Museum, Wien)Figure 20: site plan of the sanctuary of ancient Olympia (Source: www.wikipedia.orq)Figure 21: Philippeum in Olympia, (source: www.britannica.com)Figure 22: mosaic from Baalbek representing Alexander, Olympias with a snake and Philip (source: www.livius.org) ne when he becomes aware that Alexander was conceived by a divine snake nand to a snake climbing on her lap and Philip sitting beside her, probably theFigure 23: Olympias reclined on a couch feeding a snake (Source: www.britishmuseum.org)
