Olympias II of Epirus

Olympia (Greek Ὀλυμπιάς ), also called to distinguish it from their eponymous great-great Olympias II, was a queen of the Molosser and leader of the Epirotes of the dynasty of Aiakiden in the 3rd century BC.

Olympias was a daughter of King Pyrrhus ' and I was with her (half - ) brother Alexandros II married. It was the only sibling marriage among the Aiakiden. Upon the death of her husband, her sons brother Pyrrhus II and Ptolemy were still a minor, so Olympias took over the regency for her. To ward off the expansion pressure of the Aetolian federal, claimed Acarnania, they formed an alliance with Demetrius II of Macedon, which she gave her daughter Phthia to wife. Apparently, in order to preserve their influence on her older son Pyrrhus II, Olympias was his concubine poison Tigris. The elder son died early, shortly after she had given him dominion. Olympias also survived her second son Ptolemy and died shortly after this, so her granddaughter Deidameia, her son Pyrrhus 's daughter, was left as the last members of the dynasty.