In a strange compromise, both figures-Philip III and Alexander IV-were elevated to the kingship, quickly becoming prizes, pawns, fought over by a half-dozen Macedonian generals. With his demise, it was as if the sun had disappeared from the solar system, as if planets and moons began to spin crazily in new directions, crashing into one another with unimaginable force.Īlexander bequeathed his power, legend has it, “to the strongest,” leaving behind a mentally damaged half brother and a posthumously born son as his only heirs. It is a tale of loss that begins with the greatest loss of all, the death of the Macedonian king who had held the empire together. The story of Alexander’s conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic and consequential saga of the empire’s collapse remains virtually untold. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity. Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will.
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