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- Sun Aug 28, 2022 5:21 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: Olympias and her names.
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Re: Olympias and her names.
The business of her four names can be found in Plutarch's Moralia 401: Thus the mother of Alexander, whose true name was Polyxena, was afterwards called Myrtale, then Olympias, and Stratonice. I think something is also mentioned in Justin, but I'm not too sure on that. Elizabeth Carney's Olympias ha...