Olympias (disambiguation)

Olympias (disambiguation)

Olympias (ca. 375–316 BC) was an Epirote princess, the fourth wife of King Philip II of Macedon and the mother of Alexander the Great.

Olympias may also refer to:

People

  • Olympias of Epirus (3rd century BC), an ancient Greek ruler
  • Olympias the Deaconess (ca. AD 368–408), or St. Olympias

Other uses

  • Olympias (trireme), a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme
  • Olympias Papagou, the basketball team of Papagou, a suburb of Athens, Greece

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