Didymeia

Didymea or Didymeia was a Macedonian Greek noblewoman. She originally came from the Macedonian highlands and her family were petty landholders in Europus. Didymeia was the daughter of Antiochus and Laodice of Macedonia. Her father served as a military general under King Philip II of Macedon and gained distinction as one of Philip’s officers. Her brother Seleucus I Nicator was one of the Diadochi of Alexander the Great and her paternal uncle was a Greek soldier called Ptolemy.