Inscription reading "To Queen Thessalonike, (Daughter) of Philip", Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Born
353/2 or 346/5 BC
Died
295 BCE
Spouse
Cassander
Children
Philip IV of Macedon
Antipater I of Macedon
Alexander V of Macedon
Parents
Philip II (father)
Nicesipolis (mother)
Relatives
Alexander the Great (half-brother)
Thessalonike (half-sister)
Cynane (half-sister)
Philip III of Macedon (half-brother)
Thessalonike (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη; 353/2 or 346/5 BC – 295 BC) was a Macedonian Greek princess, the daughter of King Philip II of Macedon by his Thessalian wife or concubine, Nicesipolis.[1][2][3] History links her to three of the most powerful men in Macedon—daughter of King Philip II, half-sister of Alexander the Great and wife of Cassander.
^Pausanias. Description of Greece. pp. viii 7.7 – via perseus.tufts.edu.
^Athenaeus. Deipnosophistae. p. xiii.
^Pausanias. Description of Greece. pp. ix. 7.3 – via perseus.tufts.edu.
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