Most influential are Olympias, Kleopatra, Antipater's daughters, Kynane, Adaia-Eurydike, Thessalonike, Barsine, Roxane, Apama, Amastris, Stratonice, Berenike, Arsinoe II, and the hetairai. This article will portray the lives of these notable women who used their influence to gain power, or were used by others to secure their own position. They were mostly used by men to ensure alliances, but some were ambitious enough to strive for leadership. In the background of it all, women played important roles that are frequently overlooked by the sources due to their gender. Their names and deeds are preserved in the sources together with a few mentions of their wives, mothers, sisters, or daughters. After Alexander's death, his generals dismantled the empire and established their own rule over certain territories. Phillip II and his son Alexander the Great created the Macedonian empire that stretched from the Danube to the Indus.
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