Family Tree Alexander the Great Was Born Into: Sources

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Portrait	Person	Years	Life	On the chart
AI	Amyntas IIIGrandfather, king	?–370 BC	King from 393 to 370 BC. Sources2	Find on the chart
EI	Eurydice IGrandmother	Not recorded	Of Lynkestis. Sources3	Find on the chart
NI	Neoptolemus IKing of Epirus	Not recorded	Father of Olympias. Sources4	Find on the chart
CE	Cleopatra EurydiceLast wife of Philip	Not recorded	Niece of Attalus. Sources3	Find on the chart
A	AudataWife of Philip	Not recorded	An Illyrian princess. Sources3	Find on the chart
P	PhilinnaWife of Philip	Not recorded	Of Larissa. Sources3	Find on the chart
N	NicesipolisWife of Philip	Not recorded	Of Pherae. Sources8	Find on the chart
	Philip IIFather, king	382–336 BC	Killed at Aegae in 336 BC. Sources3	Find on the chart
	OlympiasMother	c. 375–316 BC	Killed at Pydna in 316 BC. Sources4	Find on the chart
C	CynaneHalf-sister	Not recorded	Killed on the orders of Perdiccas. Sources9	Find on the chart
PI	Philip IIIHalf-brother, king	c. 357–317 BC	Executed in 317 BC. Sources9	Find on the chart
C	CassanderHusband of Thessalonike	Not recorded	He ended the line. Sources6	Find on the chart
T	ThessalonikeHalf-sister	352?–295 BC	The city bears her name. Sources8	Find on the chart
CM	Cleopatra of MacedonFull sister	c. 355–308 BC	Ruled Epirus from 331 BC. Sources7	Find on the chart
	Alexander the GreatKing of Macedon	356–323 BC	Died at Babylon in 323 BC. Sources5	Find on the chart
	RoxanaWife	?–309? BC	Mother of Alexander IV. Sources6	Find on the chart
	StateiraWife	Not recorded	One of three wives. Sources2	Find on the chart
B	BarsinePartner	Not recorded	Named as mother of Heracles. Sources5	Find on the chart
AE	Adea EurydiceNiece, queen	?–317 BC	Wife of Philip III. Sources9	Find on the chart
AI	Alexander IVSon, king	323–309? BC	Born after his father died. Sources6	Find on the chart
H	HeraclesSon, disputed	?–309? BC	Killed in 309 BC. Sources6	Find on the chart

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Alexander the Great, Unknown author, about 100 BC.
Philip II, Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2017.
Olympias, Unknown Roman artist, about 215 to 243.
Roxana, Pietro Rotari, 1756.
Stateira, Ancient artist, photographed by Fabien Bièvre-Perrin, 1st century BC to 1st century AD.
Alexander in the Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun at Pompeii, about 100 BC, Unknown Roman artist, about 100 BC.

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