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EP9 Glimpses of Olympias

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

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What Does All This Mean?

The night before Philip Mary's Olympias, the bride dreamed that there was a peel of thunder and that a thunderbolt fell upon her womb. According to Plutarch, Philip goes to a bunch of seers and asks them, what does all this mean? And most of them say, you got to keep a closer eye on your wife, right? Make sure no one's coming into the marriage bed that you don't know about. If Alexander was trying to make people think he was the son of a God, might a story like that help his case?

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