Talk:Olympias

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For God's sake, whoever wrote this article is a complete ignorant, to say the least, and shouldn't be writing about a subject s/he doesn't know anything about. Olympias was daughter of a Neoptolemus, granted, but not the mythological one! There is a great, great, great gap of time between these two characters that amounts to some 25 generations, if Achilles did exist!

A genealogical tree of the characters involved can be found here.

I join you in disdain for the general level of classical studies on Wikipedia—this is why I started the Wiki Classical Dictionary—but let me suggest that the problem here isn't stupidity but merely failing to check where a link goes. The text is entirely correct, but the link Neoptolemus goes to the mythical individual, not to her father. That seems to be the only crime. It's very easy to do this. Imagine saying that that Alexander married Roxane and not realizing it goes to the Police song. It wouldn't mean you thought Alexander's wife didn't, um, need to put out the red light. Lectiodifficilior 03:01, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Family? 2 Angelina Jolie 3 Broken Link 4 Name

[edit] Family?

This article basically only names Olympias' relatives as her father and uncle. Who was her mother? Did she have brothers and sisters? Or is this information completely lost?

=/ So I'm assuming that's a "no", considering the time its been since I posted this. Ah, oh well. At least I learned about her brother, but no clue as to other mother/sisters (if any)/other brothers.

~~ I'd like to bring to people's attention that if you search Albania - the article there expresses the view that Olimpia was an "Illyrian" Princess (Illyrians portrayed as ancient Albanians). I have taken the liberty to add that she was an Epirotean Princess - which is what I was taught, but I only quoted that in once I saw that wikipedia seems to agree when you search under Alexander the Great. Was wondering, what is wikipedia's official view on this matter? Or are the two versions likely to co-exist? ApplesnPeaches ~~

She was Epirote thus a hellene according to history channell on Epirotes and MacedonsMegistias (talk) 00:48, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie was excellent as Olympias in Alexander, an otherwise excreable film. Is the Dionysius worship and snake fetish a documented part of her history or is more myth/film magic? jengod 08:29, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

The snake stuff and Dionysus worship is documented in the ancient sources, AFAIK. She was also affiliated with the Kabeiroi cult. Alexander 007 00:42, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Broken Link

For the Wiki Classical Dictionary link, it appears as broken to me. Has the link been moved/deleted?

[edit] Name

Being as how she wasn't named "Olympias" until her married to Philip II, what was she originally called? And the said fact should also be listed. I'll go add it now.

Her original name was Myrtale. Hulamoth

The name is mentioned here as well but not for her.Myrtaleand a Myrtilus in this page MyrtilusMegistias (talk) 23:27, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

 :) Great, thanks for the information. Hmmm--you don't happen to know why 'Myrtale', do you?

Also Polyxena and Stratonice. Njál 17:56, 7 August 2007 (UTC)