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So when Alexander the Great died everyone and their mother (literaly in the case of Olympias) tried to claim his vast empire. What I always found odd is the two members of the royal family that weren't used as pawns or otherwise involved: Alexander the Great's niece and nephew by his full sister Cleopatra, Neoptolemus II of Epirusand Cadmeia. Is there a particular reason they weren't involved in the later wars of the Diadochi? I get that they were both very young when their uncle died, but why weren't they used later like their cousins Alexander IV and Heracles and why didn't Neoptolemus II get involved when he grew up ? At the very least you would think he would try to claim Macedon itself, as the closest male relative to Alexander.
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