... What about me? Am I a bastard? Alexander shouted. Attalus threw his own goblet back and a general brawl ensued, during which Alexander and his father snarled at each other. After this incident Alexander and his mother left Macedon. Later they reconciled with Philip and returned home, but Alexander continued to mistrust his father. When Philip arranged for his retarded son Arridaeus to marry the daughter of a Persian governor, Alexander feared that this meant Philip intended to make Arridaeus his successor. In a panic Alexander secretly married the satrap's daughter himself. In celebration of this marriage a great festival was arranged. An opening ceremony was to be held in a theater. As Philip was entering the theater he was stabbed in the heart by the captain of his bodyguard, Pausanias. The assassin fled across a vineyard behind the theater, and might have gotten away if a vine had not ...

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