Archaeologists may have discovered the birthplace of Alexander the Great's grandmother
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Eurydike I was a boss bitch. Not only was she unusually prominent in politics for a queen, she also engaged in foreign policy on her own, successfully negotiationg with a foreign general to have him protect her late husband's throne against a pretender, apparently without any participation from her son-in-law, who served as regent at the time.
The youngest of her sons, Phillip II, would go on to reform the military and secure hegemony over Greece, laying the groundwork for the invasion of Persia that he never got to carry out. After his assassination, that invasion was instead performed by his son, Alexander III, later dubbed "The Great" for this feat.
It should be noted that, with Alexander being on campaign for basically all of his reign and generally not too interested in domestic rulership, his mother Olympias of Epirus was the de facto ruler of Macedonia. Behind the successful general are two powerful women that first protected his father's throne, then took care of the actual ruling so that he would be free to hunt glory.