Great Greek Women: Thessalonike, sister of Alexander the Great

The song is ΦΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΥΡΑΝΕ ΜΟΥ (Fos kai ourane mou), by ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΠΛΟΥΤΑΡΧΟΣ (Giannis Ploutarhos). The pretty faces are Christianna Gargaropoulou (Χριστιάνα Γαργαροπούλου) and Apostolis Totsikas (Αποστόλης Τότσικας).

Thessalonike (Θεσσαλονίκη) is the daughter of Phillip II of Macedon and Nicesipolis of Thessaly. She is the half-sister of Alexander the Great, and was married to Cassander (Κάσσανδρος), one of his generals after his death. One of her sons, Antipater (Ἀντίπατρος) murdered her because she did not support his claim to the throne.

The city named after this great woman is the capital of Macedonia.

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'Strabo also says he [Alexander] was driven by 'a love of glory' to emulate his ancestors Heracles and Perseus'

(Michael Wood, In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great: A Journey from Greece to Asia, pp71-72)

"Alexander's belief that he was a descendant of Achilles, through his mother had a profound effect on his attitude."

(John Maxwell O'Brien, Alexander the Great the invisible enemy p13)

"Olympias and her son and daughter believed themselves to be descendants of both Andromache and Achilles."
(Elizabeth Donnelly Carney, Women and Monarchy in Macedonia, p 11)

"the newly formed empire must be brought under the influence of the Greek mind. The people must be taught the Greek language, they must live in cities built after a Greek model."

(Hendrik Willem Van Loon,The Story of Mankind, section: Alexander the Great, p 85)

'Cassander, king of Macedonia, founded Thessaloniki in 31 6 or 31 5 BC by uniting the town of Therma with a number of nearby villages'

(The World Book Encyclopedia - Page 257)

'Kassandros's wife was born when Philip was exanding his territory in Thessaly. Philip arrived home and announced that the child would be called Thessaloniki, 'Victory in Thessaly.'

( Paul Hellander, Kate Armstrong, Lonely Planet Greece, p 297)

'Cassander's sons were by Thessalonice, the daughter of Philip, and both Thessalonice and Aridaeus had Thessalian women for their mothers.'

(Pausanias, Description of Greece, vii, 7)

'Thessalonica was made a free city in 42 BCE. It retained its Greek character and language throughout the Roman period.'

(David Noel Freedman, Allen C. Myers, Astrid B. Beck, Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, p 1300, explanation for Thessalonians)

'Thessaloniki is the only sea-board city of contemporary Greece that has never, from its foundation (316 BC) till today, lost its commercial importance.'

(A.E Vacalopoulos, A History of Thessalonica, p 3)

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