Word: arrhidaeus
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...your readers that Alexander had married an Asiatic mountain princess, Roxane. Little known, however, is their son, born after Alexander's death in 323 B. C. Emperor of the better half of the known world, a position he shared with Alexander's halfbrother, the half-wit Philip Arrhidaeus, the young Alexander might also expect to be deified like his father. He was not only born a king, but practically also a god. The enormous inheritance proved fatal. The regents fought each other, turned the empire upside down. In that cockeyed world no one was surprised when...
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