Neoptolemus I of Epirus
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Neoptolemus I of Epirus (370 BC – 357 BC) was a king of Epirus
and son of Alcetas I, and father of Alexander I of Epirus
and Queen Olympias
. He was a maternal grandfather of Alexander the Great. On the death of Alcetas, Neoptolemus and his brother Arymbas agreed to divide the kingdom, and continued to rule their respective portions without any interruption of the harmony between them, until the death of Neoptolemus, which, according to Droysen, may be placed about 360 BC.
Epirus
The name Epirus, from the Greek "Ήπειρος" meaning continent may refer to:-Geographical:* Epirus - a historical and geographical region of the southwestern Balkans, straddling modern Greece and Albania...
and son of Alcetas I, and father of Alexander I of Epirus
Alexander I of Epirus
Alexander I of Epirus , also known as Alexander Molossus , was a king of Epirus of the Aeacid dynasty. As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, he was an uncle of Alexander the Great...
and Queen Olympias
Olympias
Olympias was a Greek princess of Epirus, daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, the fourth wife of the king of Macedonia, Philip II, and mother of Alexander the Great...
. He was a maternal grandfather of Alexander the Great. On the death of Alcetas, Neoptolemus and his brother Arymbas agreed to divide the kingdom, and continued to rule their respective portions without any interruption of the harmony between them, until the death of Neoptolemus, which, according to Droysen, may be placed about 360 BC.