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In Amphipolis, the tomb of Alexander the Great’s mother!

A discovery of global archaeological and historical interest, which is going to occupy the experts of every field related to historiography, archaeometry as well as the study of findings related to the assessment and study of human remains, as well as the related branches of research, is revealed today by the “Estia tis Kyriakis” publicizing the already verified but not publicized news that the mother of Alexander the Great, Olympias, was also buried in the Tomb of Amphipolis!

• By Makis Delipetrou

The newspaper approached some of the most important and worthy experts of the ministry responsible for Culture, who responded in an affirmative manner, regarding the known reliability and seriousness of those who have been involved from the beginning with this very serious matter. Sources that can hardly be refuted claim “that the mother of the great soldier is also buried with the ashes of Hephaistion”.

They even point out in the discussions that are now monopolizing the interest between them “that a scientific dialogue must be started in order to document this hypothesis about how inside the mound, the bones of a woman aged about 65, with a broken pelvis, were found in a special section “.

Olympias is said to have been murdered by Kassandros, (353 – 298 BC) who was the eldest of the twelve children of the general Antipater. He was characterized as “Anti-Alexander”, because he killed the mother, the wife and the genuine son of M. Alexander, while he was the moral perpetrator in the strangulation of Herakles, Alexander’s illegitimate son, by the general Polysperhon, until then a confidant of Olympias and the family of Alexander. Kassandros even forcibly married Thessaloniki, Alexander’s half-sister, with the aim of gaining precedence and privileges in the acquisition of the Macedonian throne, as a blood relative of the Macedonian dynasty. The archon was led into a dispute with Olympias, the most capable and gifted by nature with leadership and even hegemonic abilities, but she was extremely intrusive and friendly, having a passion for power.

This unyielding passion was hinted at by Philip, when, in reply to his son Alexander, who characterized his mother as the bravest of all the Nereids, he laughingly told him that she was “not only braver, but also more warlike, for she never ceases to he’s arguing.” Kassander’s dispute with Olympias reached proportions when he had intercourse with Alexander the Great’s half-sister Thessalonica. Thessalonica (352 BC – 295 BC) was a Macedonian princess, daughter of King Philip and Thessalian wife of Nikisipolis from Feres. The Macedonian king Philip II, to celebrate his daughter’s birthday, which coincided with the victory of his troops, in 353 BC, in a battle between his Macedonian army and the Thessalian Alliance, in the important battle of Krokius Pedio in Thessaly against the Phocians, is said to have given his newborn daughter the name “Thessalonica”, from the words Thessalon and Nike.

Despite the historical rumors that after the conflict with the troops of Eurydice and Arridaeus, those captured by the old queen were brutally put to death, Cassander, who was present in Athens, moved against her in the fortified coastal city of Pydna, where Olympias had taken refuge with her little Alexander IV, Roxani, Thessaloniki and many believers, but he did not instruct the enraged relatives of those murdered by Olympias to stone her, “leaving her corpse unburied to rot”.

Related information states that he was buried in the Tomb of Amphipolis at the request of Thessalonica, where he was aware of her living in that city, when Alexander the Great was campaigning against the Persians. It is noted that the great recruit before each new campaign expected to receive the oracle through the oracles of Olympias who judged whether the omens were auspicious. The first strong indications that Olympias was buried in Tymvos are strengthened by the fact that there was found a mosaic with a psycho transmitter resembling that of the Kaverian Mysteries of Samothrace and three other persons attributed as figures to Philip, Olympias and Alexander, i.e. her family!

Source: Estia 

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