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Alexander I (of Epirus)

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Alexander I (died 330 BC)

King of Epirus, Greece, about 342-330 BC. In 332 he crossed to Italy, to aid the Tarentines against the Samnites and other tribes, but was defeated and killed near Pandosia.

He was the brother of Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great; he was also the son-in-law of Philip II of Macedon, whose daughter Cleopatra he married 336 and who had made him king of Epirus.
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