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369 BC (search for this): entry eurydice-bio-2
Eury'dice
(*Eu)rudi/kh).
1. An Illyrian princess, wife of Amyntas II., king of Macedonia, and mother of the famous Philip.
According to Justin (7.4, 5), she engaged in a conspiracy with a paramour against the life of her husband; but though the plot was detected, she was spared by Amyntas out of regard to their common offspring.
After the death of the latter (B. C. 369), his eldest son, Alexander, who succeeded him on the throne, was murdered after a short reign by Ptolemy Alorites, and it seems probable that Eurydice was concerned in this plot also. From a comparison of the statements of Justin (7.5) and Diodorus (15.71, 77, 16.2), it would appear that Ptolemy was the paramour at whose instigation Eurydice had attempted the life of her husband; and she certainly seems to have made common cause with him after the assassination of her son. (Thirlwall's Greece, vol. v. p. 164.)
But the appearance of another pretender to the throne, Pausanias, who was joined by the greater part of the