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Mother’s Day usually celebrates all of the sweet and loving moms out there. But there’s another breed of moms that aren’t all fresh-baked cookies and warm milk. These historical moms wanted what’s best for their kids (and themselves). Some took a tough but fair approach to getting things done — and others were more than willing to crush rebellions and murder family members to make things happen.Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders of all time, securing an empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Himalayan Mountains. He seems to have inherited much of his moxie from mom.Alexander’s mother, Olympias, was the fourth wife of Alexander’s father. Even in ancient times, Olympias got a bad rap: The historian Plutarch accused her of sleeping with snakes as part of her religious rites.
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When Alexander’s dad took another wife, a Macedonian named Cleopatra, Olympias went into voluntary exile, only to return after her husband was assassinated — an event that some historians suspect Olympias had a hand in. She then had Cleopatra murdered, along with Cleopatra’s infant child, helping secure her own son’s succession to the throne. Olympias has also been accused of poisoning another child of Philip II, Philip III, who would survive with brain damage.Exactly how ruthless Olympias really was is hard to say, said Brian Pavlac, a historian at King’s College in Pennsylvania. Historical women often get painted as especially cruel and vicious, Pavlac told LiveScience. [Fight, Fight, Fight: The History of Human Aggression]