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Roxane and Alexander IV in Epirus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Grace H. Macurdy
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The writers who discuss in detail the history of Macedonia during the years of ‘The Kings,’ Philip Arrhidaeus and Alexander IV (323–317 B.C.), state or assume that Roxane, the widow of Alexander the Great, fled to Queen Olympias in Epirus with her little son, after the death of Antipater, or else that she was sent or taken there by Polyperchon at the time when Queen Eurydice was putting Cassander in Polyperchon's place as her husband's prime minister. The stay of the mother and son in Epirus and their return with Olympias when she entered Macedonia to fight at Evia with Eurydice and Philip Arrhidaeus for the kingdom are mentioned by such authorities as Grote, Niese, Beloch, Kaerst, Staehelin (Berve, also, refers to Kaerst and Staehelin for this part of Roxane's history), Klotzsch, and Tarn.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , 1932 , pp. 256 - 261
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1932

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References

1 History of Greece, 10, p. 302.

2 Geschichte der griech. und makedon. Staaten, 2, 237, 250.

3 Griech. Gesch. 4, 1, p. 106 and note 2.

4 R.E. 1, sp. 1435, s.v. Alexander IV.

5 R.E. 2, sp. 1155, s.v. Roxane.

6 Alexanderreich, II, p. 237, s.v. Roxane.

7 Epirotische Geschichte, 102, and Register, s.v. Olympias, (Vormünderin ihres Enkels Alexander, § 19 Google Scholar).

8 CAH. 6, 480.

9 Plut., Alex. 77 Google Scholar (of Perdiccas).

10 Cf. also Diod. 18, 65, 1:

11 Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie, Neue Folge, Bd. 14, Heft 2 (1884), p. 634.

12 Commentationes Philologae Ienenses, vol. 3, pp. 53, 79 (1884).