War", Philip had announced, "was being declared against the Persians on behalf of the Greeks, to punish the barbarians for their lawless treatment of the old Greek temples.
Philip's mother had been a Lyncestian noblewoman" — "rebellious kings of Lyncestis who traced their origins to the notorious Bacchiad kings of Greek Corinth.
Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour…