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Great Reception
As soon as the procession reached the Royal Palace, Queen Olympias, mother of Alexander the great received the distinguished Royal Guests reaching from all over the world along with her daughter Cleopatra of Macedon. She was queen regent of Epirus. The daughter of Philip II of Macedon and Olympias of Epirus, she was the only full sibling of Alexander the Great. She was with her husband Alexander I King of Epirus, who was also the brother of Olympias. Next to them was Cynane was the half-sister to Alexander the Great, and daughter of Philip II by Audata, an Illyrian princess, who was brought up by Olympias. She was with her husband Amyntas IV of Macedon. Roxana was a Sogdian Persian princess of Bactria and a wife of the Greek Macedonian king, Alexander the Great was standing along with her father Oxyartes, a Sogdian King of Bactria, Stateira II, was the wife of Alexander the Great, who was the daughter of Stateira I and Darius III of Persia was standing along with Parysatis, the youngest daughter of Artaxerxes III of Persia, married Alexander the Great in 324 BC at the Susa weddings. Olympia’s brother Astyanax, the King of Reggio Calabria and his wife Gaea, the queen of Syracuse and King Tharrypas Ek Epirus, half brother of Olympia, who was the son of Neoptolemus I, king of Epirus and Antigone of Cyrene were also standing along with all the Tribal Kings of Greece at the reception....Sivkishen, Author