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 | | Plutarch and Justin absurdly ascribe to these suspicions the estrangement that subsequently arose between Philip and Olympias, for which the numerous amours of the former, and the passionate and jealous character of the latter are amply sufficient to account. | | | By that event Antipater was placed in the undisputed control of affairs in Macedon and Greece, and Olympias deemed it prudent to withdraw herself beyond the sphere of his power: she accordingly took refuge in Epirus, where she urged her cousin Aeacides to join the Greeks against Antipater (Paus. | | | But notwithstanding this promise, the conqueror caused her to be arraigned before the assembly of the Macedonians for her late executions, and condemned to death without being allowed a hearing. |
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| | Olympias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Condemned without a hearing, she was put to death in 316 BC by the friends of those whom she had slain, and Cassander is said to have denied her remains the rites of burial. | | | In spite of this, she was brought to trial for the numerous and cruel executions of which she had been guilty during her short lease of power. | | | Olympias at Livius - articles on ancient history |
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| | The Baldwin Project: Pyrrhus by Jacob Abbott |
| | Olympias, who had always hated Antipater before, was now, when she found herself thus supplanted by him in her plans for allying herself with Perdiccas, aroused to the highest pitch of indignation and rage. | | | As, however, the true heir did not, on this account, relinquish his claims, two parties were formed in the country, adhering respectively to the two branches of the family that claimed the throne, and a division ensued, which, in the end, involved the kingdom of Epirus in protracted civil wars. | | | His plan, it was supposed, in the assignment of provinces to the various generals, was to remove them from Babylon, and give them employment in distant fields, where they would [29] not interfere with him in the execution of his plans for making himself master of the supreme power. |
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http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=abbott&book=pyrrhus&story=olympias
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| | Olympias, for her part, continually complained that Antipater's position and the respect to which it entitled him made him insufferably arrogant; he no longer remembered, she wrote, who had put him where he was, but claimed absolute pre-eminence among his fellow countrymen and the rest of Greece. | | | They did as he had ordered; and, although Olympias was not present, and had none to speak in her defence, the Macedonians condemned her to death. | | | Cassander, however, sent some of his friends to Olympias advising her to escape secretly, promising to provide a ship for her and to carry her to Athens. |
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http://lamar.colostate.edu/~jgaughan/courses/306/HellenisticQueens.htm
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| | The assassin was supposedly a former lover of the king, the disgruntled young nobleman Pausanias, who held a grudge against Philip because the king had ignored a complaint he had expressed. | | | This myth would hold strong appeal for Egyptians who desired continuity in rule and harbored a strong dislike for foreign rule. | | | Another possible instigator could have been Darius III, the recently crowned King of Persia. |
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| | Royalty.nu - Alexander the Great, King of Macedon |
| | Olympias had been opposed to Antipater's regency and she tried to oppose his son. | | | In time Roxane and her son were also killed by Cassander, who became the king of Macedon in 305 BC. | | | Philip certainly seems to have believed that Alexander was his son. |
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| | In 316 B.C. Cassander condemned Olympias to death and is said to have denied her the rites of burial. | | | When Philip II married Cleopatra in 337, Olympias took Alexander to Epirus and did not return until after the assassination of Philip. | | | Despite the close bond between Olympias and Alexander the Great, he was to leave her in 334 B.C when he was aged twenty-one and was never to see her again. |
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http://www.alexander-the-great.co.uk/olympias.htm
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| | Roxane and the baby Alexander were killed in secret. | | | It seems that he and Olympias were not on speaking terms, and the queen-mother must have been glad that she could go back to Molossis in 330: her brother had died during a campaign in southern Italy, and she served as regent for her cousin Aeacidas. | | | Until then, Olympias had refused to support any side in the conflict, but now she realized that if Cassander were to rule, her grandson would definitely loose the crown. |
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| | Chauvin and Olympias, two dramas in detail, synopsis, cast, setting, themes, story, notes, and author's background and ... |
| | The thesis, showing "how devastating, both to the immediate sufferer herself and to society at large, is passion uncontrolled by reason" (as Kitto says in his discussion of Euripides' Medea, in The Greeks, Pelican Books, 1965, p. | | | Alexander, as all monarchs, killed all rivals when his father was assassinated, even those with the most remote ambitions to the throne. | | | What Olympias did was at fault because she was a woman, and in addition, one who had no preparation for command. |
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http://www.olympias-chauvin-theplays.net/plays_oly_themes.html
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| | SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: ALEXANDER |
| | As Alexander climbs into bed, we see his bare butt as well as a partial view of his scrotum (from behind and in the dark). | | | Years later, his parents are divorced and Olympias urges Alexander to marry and sire a son to insure his rightful place on the throne, but he's more interested in his longtime friend and confidant, Hephaistion (JARED LETO). | | | Olympias then asks Alexander, "What have I done to make you hate me so?" We then hear Ptolemy say that Alexander never saw his mother again after that. |
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http://www.screenit.com/movies/2004/alexander.html
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| | She found it natural to commit murder to avenge murder. | | | Olympias is a high-born woman with the constraining ties of blood and clan. | | | Years after her son, Alexander III (the Great) died in Babylon, Olympias, Queen of Epirus, nursed her antipathy toward Alexander’s appointed regent, Antipater, and vicariously satiated her lust for retribution against the clan that she believed had poisoned her son. |
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http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/olympias/olympiasopera.htm
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| | Alexander at once executed all those who were alleged to be behind Philip's murder along with all possible rivals and the whole faction opposed to him. | | | A possible rival for the throne remained Attalus himself; the uncle of Cleopatra (Philip's last wife) was disaffected because of her murder and that of her daughter, but he had no claim to the throne of Macedonia; indeed, he was loyal to Philip and hostile to his assassin. | | | Olympias was initiated into the cults of Dionysus and Orpheus. |
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http://1stmuse.com/alex3/alex-synopsys.html
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| | Ammon was a ram with curved horns, supposed to be an Egyptian form of Jupiter. | | | Olympias also tried to meddle in the government of Macedonia, and he bore with this as well. | | | Olympias told Alexander the secret that Ammon was his real father, not Philip. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Laws of the Blood #4: Deceptions (Laws of the Blood (Paperback)): Books |
| | I just thought there were a few too many coincidences for my blood; the very source of Bentencourt's hatred for Olympias is rather laughable, and there is another highly coincidental plot point I won't mention for fear of giving something away. | | | Olympias has long reigned as the Enforcer of Washington, D.C. She is the one ultimately responsible for every strigoi in the country. | | | This turf belongs to Olympias, ancient vampire and exceedingly powerful Enforcer of the laws; not only does she have to keep the local population of blood-suckers at bay, she has the added task of making sure no one in the government learns about the actual existence of her kind. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441009840
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| | Antipater could now move against Perdiccas, he sent an army under Craterus towards Babylon. | | | Olympias had Phillip III and Eurydice imprisoned and later killed. | | | Soon Antipater became ill and on his death bed he declared that his general Polysperchon should succeed him and that his son Cassander should be given a high military position. |
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| | Her own comment: "I just keep going." Actually, she was no mere survivor. | | | However, Olympias declared to one and all that she intended not to remarry: "Had God wished me to remain a wife," she said, "He would not have taken Nebridius away." Theodosius was angry about this, and put her and her property under the guardianship of the city prefect until she was thirty. | | | Because Olympias refused to acknowledge the interloper whom the Emperor had named to replace Chrysostom, she herself was exiled and her house of charity was padlocked. |
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| | Ships of the Ancient Greeks - An Annotated List |
| | The Ship in the Mediterranean - An outline of an excerpt from lecture notes for the course, History and Archeology of the Ship. | | | Chapters include: Ships and Sea Travel, Trade, Colonies and Ancient Travellers. | | | A side view of the Olympias is displayed on the "Ships Gallery" page, and an explanation of "why a ship is a she" is thrown in for good measure (Greek sailors were probably telling this same joke in the 6th century B.C.). |
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| | Olympias * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant |
| | Cut and paste the following html for use in a web report. | | | Olympias * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant | | | When Philip married his second wife, Kleopatra (Cleopatra), Alexander’s direct ascension to the throne was jeopardized; it is assumed that Alexander and Olympias were responsible for the deaths of Kleopatra, her son and her father. |
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| | Before Philip himself went to Asia to begin the conquest, he was assassinated. | | | His father was Philip II of Macedon, who was brilliant ruler and strategist, while his mother was Olympias, princess of Epirus, daughter of King Neoptolemus of Epirus. | | | A decree brought by Nicanor to Europe and proclaimed at Olympia (September 324) required the Greek cities of the Greek League to receive back all exiles and their families (except the Thebans), a maneuver that indicated some modification of the oligarchic regimes maintained in the Greek cities by Alexander's governor Antipater. |
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| | Olympias, Greece, ancient history |
| | Olympias had allied with the general Polysperchon against Antipatros son Cassandros. | | | She was suspected of murdering Philip after he had divorced her to marry the young Cleopatra, and it was rumoured she ran through the forests at nigh, orgiasticly honouring the god Dionysis and his mysteries. | | | After Alexanders death, Olympias took on his young wife Roxane and her son Alexander, who had been born a few months after his fathers' death. |
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http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/history/ancient/olympias.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Olympias |
| | As Olympias was not thirty years of age in 390, she cannot have been born before 361. | | | Olympias was also exiled, and died a few months after Chrysostom. | | | Emperor Justinian had it rebuilt, and the prioress, Sergia, transferred thither the remains of the foundress from the ruined church of St. Thomas in Brokhthes, where she had been buried. |
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| | It ends with Olympias shouting in revenge at Phillip that Alexander is not his son and that she bred him with all her hatred in her womb. | | | To her surprise and gratefulness, Alexander treats her with utmost respect and tells all his men to accord decorum and respect to all his conquered subjects as if they were his own family. | | | Later on, Alexander announces to his team that he intends to marry an Asian/persian wife, which in his view, is key to bringing his message that he is a merciful ruler. |
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http://www.xanga.com/fish127
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| | Olympias: The Mother |
| | The area from which Olympias came was considered barbaric, and her practice of Dionysian rituals did little to convince Philip and other Macedonians otherwise. | | | She probably had fair skin, and was probably red- or auburn-haired, according to Renault. | | | She would usually take Alexander's side in family disputes, and some writers even claim that she helped inspire Pausanias' plot to kill Philip. |
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| | Holy Spirit Interactive Kids: A Saint a Day - St. Olympias |
| | Olympias died in 408, when she was about forty. | | | She said: "Had God wished me to remain a wife, he would not have taken Nebridius away." And she refused to marry again. | | | Her parents died when she was very young and she was given into the care of a wonderful Christian woman. |
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| | The Life of Saint Olympias |
| | She served in the Church as a deaconess, first in the time of Patriarch Nectarius and, after his death, under St John Chrysostom. | | | Olympias was exiled from Constantinople to Nicomedia, where she entered into rest in 408, leaving instructions that her body be placed in a coffin and cast into the sea, and that she be buried wherever the waves threw the coffin up. | | | Among other things, Chrysostom wrote to Olympias: 'Now I am deeply joyful, not only because you have been delivered from sickness, but even more because you are bearing adversities with such fortitude, calling them trifles - a characteristic of a soul filled with power and abounding in the rich fruits of courage. |
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| | Everyone claimed a link to Alexander including the Persians who believed that he was fathered by one of their own. | | | Olympias, his mother, also had a dream that Zeus, in the form of a snake, entered her womb and conceived Alexander. | | | A sideline is that Ptolemy who later founded the new dynasty in Egypt and was one of Alexander's generals may have also been his step-brother, being possibly the son of Philip but at least the son of one of Philip's concubines. |
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| | pothos.org - Olympias |
| | At the age of sixteen, she took part in the Mysteries of Samothrace where she met Philip II of Macedonia who was about to become his country's ruler. | | | However, some tombstone inscriptions have been found in south-eastern Aegean Macedonia referring to the tomb of Olympias. | | | Later when her son left for Asia, it was Olympias who again managed Macedonia and the west for a third decade. |
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| | Lecture 9: From "Polis" to "Cosmopolis" -- Alexander and Hellenistic Greece, 323-30 B.C. |
| | And she had always taught him that he was not merely the next in line, but from his youth, she told him to think he was a king in his own right. | | | Alexander was Philip's first born son and had the claim to the throne. | | | Alexander looked about him – looked at his father's worthless favorites – and said: "That, gentlemen, is the man who's been preparing to cross from Europe into Asia, and he can't even make it from one couch to the next!" Here was the moment of crisis. |
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| | Olympias - Mother to Alexander |
| | Olympias had the ability to give the whole of its internal thinking and beliefs to his son. | | | The young princess coming from the immemorial clan of Molossi of Epirus was initiated to Cavirus Rites in the island of Samothraki when she met Philip. | | | Olympias remained in history as Alexander's mother, although there is much question whether Alexander had any romantic interest in Olympias. |
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| | Olympia, city, United States - Olympia, city (1990 pop. | | | Olympia, city, ancient Greece - Olympia, ancient city, important center of the worship of Zeus in ancient Greece, in Elis near the... | | | He in turn besieged her in Pydna on the Gulf of Thessaloníki, and after her capture he ordered her execution. |
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| | Report on 1988 Sea Trials of the Trieres Olympias at Poros. | | | [trireme olympias sea trials of.olympiaz triereis trials of] | | | Coates J.F., 1991, The 1990 sea-trials of the reconstructed Greek trireme Olympias. |
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| | In 384, she was married to Nebridius, a city official, and Gregory wrote an epithalamion for the couple. | | | She also wrote an account of the event. | | | Optatus, prefect of Constantinople, fined her for refusing to accept Acacius as a legitimate successor to Chrysostom. |
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| | Olympias -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | After Alexander's death (323) she had his second wife, Stateira (Barsine), killed, and she gave birth at Babylon to a son (Alexander IV), who was accepted by the Macedonian generals as joint king with the idiot Philip III... | | | From age 13 to 16 he was taught by Aristotle, who inspired him with an interest in philosophy, medicine, and scientific investigation; but he was later to advance beyond his teacher's narrow precept that non-Greeks should be treated as slaves. | | | Organization dedicated to the study and re-creation of the ancient Greek ship. |
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| | Her parens was killed in a purge of "people who indulge in extra-curricular activities", and Olympias was deeply involved in the proceedings - on one occasion taking out a renegade Tremere and sticking two rooks of vis through his parma. | | | As a result, her reputation in the order as a whole is a very positive one - a hopolite who has risked life and limb despite not being a combat wizard. | | | Her most stable relationships are her "business" ones with her sodales, whom she has come to trust over the years. |
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| | Olympias on Encyclopedia.com |
| | He in turn besieged her in Pydna on the Gulf of Thessaloníki, and after her capture he ordered her execution. | | | Olympias approval.(Greek Ministry of the Environment approves Olympias gold project)(Brief Article) |
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| | Alexander the Boy Wonder |
| | Leonidas was a strict disciplinaria n who instilled in Alexander his ascetic nature which became famous during his Persian and Indian expeditions, where he would live simply, very much like his troops. | | | Philip and Olympias wanted nothing less than the best for their son, so when he was 13, his parents hired Aristotle from Athens to be his personal tutor. | | | Alexander never got along well with his father, although Philip was proud of Alexander for the Bucephalus incident and founding the city. |
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Olympias |
| | Alexander was Philip’s son by his third wife, Olympias, the daughter of the Molossian... | | | Help with Spanish, French, German, and Italian homework. |
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| | From this example which was placed before her eyes she raised herself more easily to contemplate and to endeavour to imitate Christ, who in all virtues is the divine original which every Christian is bound to act after. | | | Olympias, besides her birth and fortune, was, moreover, possessed of all the qualifications of mind and body which engage affection and respect. | | | St Olympias, the glory of the widows in the Eastern church, was a lady of illustrious descent and a plentiful fortune. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/mary/olympias.htm
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| | Olympias: Well, this god came to me. He looked just like you said he would! | | | Olympias: I've always had the hots for a middle aged one. | | | Olympias: Who the hell are you, and what are you doing in my house? |
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| | She was a firm supporter of Chrysostom when he was expelled in 404 from Constantinople and refused to accept the usurper Arsacius as Patriarch. | | | Saint Olympias spent the last years of her life beset by illness and persecution but comforted by Chrysostom from his place of exile. | | | She died in exile in Nicomedia on July 25 less than a year after the death of Chrysostom. |
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| | Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Olympias |
| | Terms and Conditions of Use, Privacy Statement, and Trademark Information | | | Approximately two millennia after her ancestors last plied the Mediterranean, the trireme Olympias took to the waters at Piraeus. | | | Manned by volunteer rowers of both sexes from around the world, Olympias proved a dramatic success. |
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http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_066900_olympias.htm
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| | Who's Who of Egyptian people, queens and family: Olympias |
| | When her husband was murdered by an officer in his guard, a discarded lover, she had his new wife and her child put to death. | | | The princess of Epirus, daughter of King Neoptolemos I, Olympias was married to Philip II, the King of Macedon. | | | Who's Who of Egyptian people, queens and family: Olympias |
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| | An Introduction to the Trireme Olympias |
| | Olympias is a reconstruction of an Athenian Trireme of the 5th and 4th centuries BC, built in Greece to a design worked out by John Coates, a naval architect, taking into consideration ancient evidence researched by John Morrison, former President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. | | | The two pictures below show Olympias propelled in two ways: by sail and under oar (click on images to view full-size). | | | You can get an idea of what it looks like from the inside from this sketch: |
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| | Regatta Online - News and Features |
| | The champion of sliding theory, Dr John Hale of the University of Louisville, contributed an entertaining and challenging address with an eloquent delivery rich in quotations which would have been as welcome in the Forum as his physical presence would have been at the oar. | | | The conference was also able to enjoy the trireme exhibit at the museum which features the design of Olympias and how her mysteries were unearthed, including a full-size segment demonstrating seating arrangements for Mark II. | | | Tim Shaw, the original helmsman of Olympias, said that the Olympias is not fast enough because the crew is too cramped, oars kept hitting the crossbeams and it was impossible to stretch the handle past the rower seated in front. |
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| | One was allowed to sit in it, which I did, after much hesitation, when there was nobody around (apart from the surveillance cameras). | | | I became interested because I was building little ship models as a hobby, and also because of two exhibitions: Greece and the Sea in the New Church in Amsterdam in l987 and Ancient Ships and Seafaring in the | | | That the deck was split in two halves, as on the Olympias, is not in accordance with the available evidence. |
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| | Creta Olympias Winery - About |
| | While still maintaining respect for history and tradition yet keeping a watchful eye on international developments and advances in the world of wine, Creta Olympias’ over-riding philosophy and principal concern has been to turn the spotlight on Cretan grape varieties, both white and red, and to take full advantage of the island’s vineyard potential. | | | This change in ownership has brought new inspiration to the company’s philosophy and its activities, by entering into a new phase of dynamic reorganization aiming to position Creta Olympias Winery among the leading producers in the Greek wine industry. | | | A major investment program has resulted in the "transformation" of the company’s winemaking equipment, its building installations and the surrounding area into an integral unit that is both functional and pleasing to the eye. |
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| | Olympias born into a wealthy noble Constantinople family. | | | She was orphaned when a child and was given over to the care of Theodosia by her uncle, the prefect Procopius. |
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