Situation of the country of Epirus.--Epirus and Macedon.--Their political connections.--Olympias.--Her visits to Epirus.--Philip.--Olympias as a wife.--She makes many difficulties.--Alexander takes part with his mother in her quarrel.--Olympias is suspected of having murdered her husband.--Alexander's treatment of his mother.--His kind and considerate behavior.--Antipater.--Character of Antipater.--Alexander's opinion of him.--Olympias makes a great deal of trouble.--Alexander sends Craterus home.--Alexander's wife Roxana.--Her babe.--Aridaeus.--The two competing claimants to the crown.--Some account of the Ptolemaic dynasty.--The distribution of Alexander's empire.--Compromise between the r…
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