People are still musing about the tomb.
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/09/...mphipolis/
The Taj Mahal and Mausoleum at Halicarnassus demonstrate that royalty was not above going overboard in expressions of honor for dead relatives.
Anyway, Olympias is a possibility - the story goes though that she was defeated, murdered and denied burial by the victor, Cassander, so an opulent burial might seem unlikely. Alexander's wife, Roxana, also died around this time....perhaps helped along by the aforementioned Cassander...but an opulent funeral there might have served Macedonian politics.
We shall see.
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/09/...mphipolis/
Quote:Author of The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great and several academic papers on Alexander’s tomb says that in the recently discovered Greek tomb might be buried the mother of Alexander the Great.
The Taj Mahal and Mausoleum at Halicarnassus demonstrate that royalty was not above going overboard in expressions of honor for dead relatives.
Anyway, Olympias is a possibility - the story goes though that she was defeated, murdered and denied burial by the victor, Cassander, so an opulent burial might seem unlikely. Alexander's wife, Roxana, also died around this time....perhaps helped along by the aforementioned Cassander...but an opulent funeral there might have served Macedonian politics.
We shall see.
