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Babylon, Persia June 323 B.C.
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On the 10th of June, a month short of his 33rd year,
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Alexander's great heart finally gave out.
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And, as he vowed, he joined Hephaistion.
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But in his short life he achieved without doubt,
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the mythic glory of his ancestor, Achilles. And more.
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His sacrifice was an early death. But in
keeping to his side of the bargain,
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I cannot help but feel he conquered death as well.
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Olympias's transgression in the murder
of his father is, to my mind, a probability,
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His, a burden.
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Alexander was too in love with glory for him to steal it,
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But by blood, and blood alone, he was guilty.
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Within hours, we were fighting like jackals for his corpse.
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Wars of the world had begun.
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Forty years, off and on, they endured,
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Cassander in Greece, Crateros and Antigonas in Western Asia,
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Seleukos and Perdiccas in the East, myself in Egypt,
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..until we divided his empire in four parts.
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Cassander certainly proved his will to power,
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And seven years later he had Olympias executed,
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And within 12 years he achieved the
complete destruction of Alexander's bloodline,
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When he poisoned Roxane
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..and Alexander's 13 year old
son, the true heir to the empire.