Olympias (disambiguation) explained

Olympias (c. 375–316 BC) was the fourth wife of Philip II of Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great.

Olympias may also refer to:

People

• Olympias II of Epirus, 3rd century BC queen and regent of Epirus
• Olympias of Thebes, Greek medical writer and midwife
• Olympias (Herodian), daughter of Herod the Great
• Olympias of Armenia (died 361), Christian Roman noblewoman, one of the wives of King Arsaces II (Arshak II) of Armenia
• Olympias (sister of Praetorian prefect Seleucus), Seleucus being the father of Olympias the Deaconess
• Olympias the Deaconess (ca. 361/368–408), Christian Roman saint and noblewoman, niece of Olympias of Armenia
• Olympias (daughter of Robert Guiscard), 11th-century fiancée of the Byzantine co-emperor Constantine Doukas

Sports teams

• Olympias Frenarou, a volleyball team based in Frenaros, Famagusta District, Cyprus
• Olympias Lympion, a football club based in Lympia, Cyprus
• A.E.P. Olympias Patras, a multi-sport club in Patras, Greece
  • Olympias Patras B.C., a professional basketball club

Other uses

• Olympias (trireme), a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme
• Olympias (Thessaly), a town in ancient Thessaly
• Olympias mine, in northern Greece