Olympias
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Olympias, Queen of Macedonia, wife to King Philip of Macedonia and most notably mother of Alexander the Great.
Herself a princess of Epirus, she was a powerful political figure: commonly attributed as the mastermind to her own husband's assassination when she placed a golden crown on the now crucified assassin's head. But she didn't stop there, she compelled Philip's new queen Cleopatra to hang herself and may even have personally burned the new child heir alive herself.[1] Thereby ascending her son Alexander to the throne. Plutarch[2] and Quintus agree that Alexander may well have been accessory to the plot by reciting a specific poetic line to the assassin to be.
Olympias lived at a crucial time for Greece in which under her husband's reign, the Greek city states were first fused into a single entity which could then be wielded by her son Alexander in the conquest of the Persian Empire.