Philip Arrhidaeus, a natural son of Philip of Macedon and the dancing girl Philinna of Larissa, died in 317 B. C. After the death of Alexander the Great in 323, the Macedonian troops in the East nominated Arrhidaeaus king, with the proviso that the child with which Alexander's wife Roxana was pregnant should be associated with him in the government. The claims of Arrhidaes were strengthened by the fact that his wife, Eurydice, was the granddaughter of Philip's elder brother and predecessor. Being of very feeble intellect, he was a mere puppet in the hands of Perdiccas. On the death of the latter (321), Arrhidaeus and Eurydice were in Cappadocia, where Antipater, the regent of Macedonia, found them and took them over with him to Pella. After his death (319), the regent Polysperchon and the dowager grandmother, Olympias, set up, in preference to Arrhidaeus, Alexander, Roxana's young son. Arrhidaeus and Eurydice protested, and called in the aid of Cassander, Antipater's disinherited heir, but, falling into the hands of Olympias, were both murdered by her orders.