Neoptolemus I of Epirus

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Neoptolemus I of Epirus(Greek:Νεοπτόλεμος Β' Ηπείρου) king of Epeirus was son of Alcetas I, and father of Alexander I of Epirus and Olympias, the mother 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.

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• Pausanias i. 11. §§ 1, 3
• Justin vii. 6. § 10, xvii. 3. § 14
• Droysen, Hellenismus, vol. i. p. 250

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).

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