The name was inspired of Mirtali who was the dominate figure of the Dodoni valley, in the Dodoni Manteio, and one of the biggest chapters in the ancient Greek history afterwards. She was Neoptolemos' daughter, king of Molloson in Epirus. A woman of true beauty, powerful, wild, impulsive with strong mystical calling, ambitious and uncompromising too.
She learned the hieratic secrets in the Manteio of Dodoni, where she served with faithfulness for years. She was also Hieria of the Kaviria Mysteries in Samothraki, where she met Philippos B’, the king of the Macedonian, also participant in mysteries. They got married in 357 B.C. Afterwards, according to the myth, Philippos won in the Olympic Games and gave her the name Olympiada, also known as Alexander's the Great, mother.
She was a dynamic woman who didn't stand her husband's polygamy that was used to the Macedonian kings. She interfered dynamically in her husband's political administration and after his death she did the exact same thing to her son Alexander the Great, who really loved her.
