Deidamia II of Epirus

Deidameia (Greek Δηιδάμεια ) was the last queen of the Molosser and leader of the Epirotes of the dynasty of Aiakiden in the 3rd century BC.

Deidameia was the daughter of King Pyrrhus ' II and was after the death of her uncle Ptolemy, the last member of the Molossian dynasty. In order to repay the death of her uncle, who had fallen into Ambracia an illness or assassinated, they seized by force the city and made her dominion over Epirotes law. This, however, provoked the opposition of the city's population Ambrakias. On the run from the applied people they barricaded himself in the temple of Artemis, where she was murdered in spite of the current temple asylum.

The end of the royal dynasty of the Epirotes took as an opportunity to eliminate the monarchical system of government in favor of a Republican Federation ( koinon ). The coup took place in the time of King ruler Demetrius II of Macedon ( 239-229 BC), who was related to the Aiakiden.