1. An Illyrian princess, wife of Amyntas II., king of Macedonia, and mother of the famous
Philip. According to Justin (7.4, 5),
she engaged in a conspiracy with a paramour against the life of her husband; but though the
plot was detected, she was spared by Amyntas out of regard to their common offspring. After
the death of the latter (B. C. 369), his eldest son, Alexander, who
succeeded him on the throne, was murdered after a short reign by Ptolemy Alorites, and it
seems probable that Eurydice was concerned in this plot also. From a comparison of the
statements of Justin (7.5) and Diodorus (15.71, 77, 16.2), it would
appear that Ptolemy was the paramour at whose instigation Eurydice had attempted the life of
her husband; and she certainly seems to have made common cause with him after the
assassination of her son. (Thirlwall's Greece, vol. v. p. 164.) But the
appearance of another pretender to the throne, Pausanias, who was joined by the greater part
of the Macedonians, reduced Eurydice to great difficulties, and led her to invoke the
assistance of the Athenian general Iphicrates, who readily espoused her cause, drove out
Pausanias, and reinstated Eurydice and Ptolemy in the full possession of Macedonia, the latter
being declared regent for the young king Perdiccas. (Aeschin. de Fals.
Leg. §§ 8, 9; Corn. Nep. Iphicrat. 3; Suidas, s. v.Κάρανος.) Justin represents Eurydice as having
subsequently joined within Ptolemy in putting to death Perdiccas also; but this is certainly a
mistake. On the contrary, Perdiccas in fact put Ptolemy to death, and succeeded him on the
throne: what part Eurydice took in the matter we know not, any more than her subsequent fate.
(Diod. 16.2; Syncell. p. 263b.)