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She accompanied her mother on her daring expedition to Asia ; and when Cynane was put to death by Alcetas , the discontent expressed by the troops, and the respect with which they looked on Eurydice as one of the surviving members of the royal house, induced Perdiccas not only to spare her life, but to give her in marriage to the unhappy king Philip Arrhidaeus . We hear no more of her during the life of Perdiccas; but after his death her active and ambitious spirit broke forth: she demanded of the new governors, in 321 BC , and even delivered in person to the assembled soldiery an harangue against Antipater, which had been composed for her by her secretary Asclepiodorus; but all her efforts were unavailing, and Antipater was appointed regent and guardian of the king. She was now compelled to remain quiet, and accompanied her husband and Antipater to Macedonia. But the death of Antipater in , and went over to her side. Eurydice fled from the field of battle to Amphipolis , but was seized and made prisoner. She was at first confined, together with her husband, in a narrow dungeon, and scantily supplied with food; but soon Olympias, becoming alarmed at the compassion excited among the Macedonians, determined to get rid of her rival, and sent the young queen in her prison a sword, a rope, and a cup of hemlock, with orders to choose her mode of death. The spirit of Eurydice remained unbroken to the last; she still breathed defiance to Olympias, and prayed that she might soon be requited with the like gifts; then, having paid as well as she could the last duties to her husband, she put an end to her own life by hanging, without giving way to a tear or word of lamentation. Her body was afterwards removed by Cassander, and interred, together with that of her husband, with royal pomp at Aegae . REFERENCES
NOTES Photius , ''Bibliotheca'', cod. 92 , '' Deipnosophistae '', xiii. 10 Photius, ibid. Photius, ibid. ; Diodorus Siculus , ''Bibliotheca'', xviii. 39 Diodorus, xix. 11; , ''Varia Historia'', xiii. 36 Diodorus, xix. 52; Athenaeus, iv. 41 POPULAR LITERATURE
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