Eurydice, mother of Philip II
Greek · mortal · classical · Recorded classification
Wife of Amyntas III and mother of Philip II. Distinct from Ptolemy I’s wife. Her ethnic background is debated; Greek denotes the source tradition here, not a settled ethnic identity.
Parentage
Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.
- father: SirrasGreek text and the inscription discussed by Landucci support Sirras as her father. Some older translations print a different reading.Strabo, Geography 7.7.8, Greek text: Eurydice daughter of Sirras (primary); Franca Landucci Gattinoni, Illyrians and Macedonians in the Fifth Century BC: An impossible peace, Karanos Supplement I (2024), pp. 125-126 and notes 28-35 (secondary)
Parentage accounts
Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.
- Sirras — Strabo and epigraphic patronymicHer mother is unnamed in the adopted Greek text. Arrhabaeus is a grandfather, not a direct parent.
Descent unresolved; fraction unquantified because the account is incomplete.
- father: SirrasGreek text and the inscription discussed by Landucci support Sirras as her father. Some older translations print a different reading.Strabo, Geography 7.7.8, Greek text: Eurydice daughter of Sirras (primary); Franca Landucci Gattinoni, Illyrians and Macedonians in the Fifth Century BC: An impossible peace, Karanos Supplement I (2024), pp. 125-126 and notes 28-35 (secondary)
Children
Children in alternative accounts
- Philip II of Macedon: Amyntas III and Eurydice — reported historical familyJustin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus 7.4 (J. S. Watson translation) (primary); Strabo, Geography 7.7.8, Greek text: Eurydice daughter of Sirras (primary)
Variant accounts
- parentageThe Greek text reads Eurydice as Sirras’s daughter; some older English versions print Sirra or Irra as a daughter of Arrhabaeus. The patronymic on inscriptions supports the former reading.Strabo, Geography 7.7.8, Greek text: Eurydice daughter of Sirras (primary); Franca Landucci Gattinoni, Illyrians and Macedonians in the Fifth Century BC: An impossible peace, Karanos Supplement I (2024), pp. 125-126 and notes 28-35 (secondary)
Relations
- father: SirrasGreek text and the inscription discussed by Landucci support Sirras as her father. Some older translations print a different reading.Strabo, Geography 7.7.8, Greek text: Eurydice daughter of Sirras (primary); Franca Landucci Gattinoni, Illyrians and Macedonians in the Fifth Century BC: An impossible peace, Karanos Supplement I (2024), pp. 125-126 and notes 28-35 (secondary)
- spouse: Amyntas III of MacedonJustin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus 7.4 (J. S. Watson translation) (primary)
- mother of: Philip II of MacedonJustin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus 7.4 (J. S. Watson translation) (primary); Strabo, Geography 7.7.8, Greek text: Eurydice daughter of Sirras (primary)
- maternal grandfather: Arrhabaeus of LyncestisThe intervening mother is unnamed; this grandparent relationship is not a direct parent edge.Strabo, Geography 7.7.8, Greek text: Eurydice daughter of Sirras (primary)
Sources
- Marriage to Amyntas III and maternity of Philip II.: Justin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus 7.4 (J. S. Watson translation) (primary)
- Daughter of Sirras and maternal granddaughter of Arrhabaeus.: Strabo, Geography 7.7.8, Greek text: Eurydice daughter of Sirras (primary)
- The patronymic is supported by inscriptions; interpretation of her ethnic background is disputed.: Franca Landucci Gattinoni, Illyrians and Macedonians in the Fifth Century BC: An impossible peace, Karanos Supplement I (2024), pp. 125-126 and notes 28-35 (secondary)