When Alexander the Great passed away, his son, Alexander IV, was still in his mother's womb, making his succession a web of intrigue.

"Having Alexander buried there would have been the icing on the cake" for the nascent city. A few decades later, accounts by Greek geographer Strabo suggest Ptolemy IV Philopator, the fourth pharaoh ...

The speech is taken from the 'Anabasis of Alexander' (Book VII Chapter X), written around 130 AD by the Roman/Greek historian Arrian. Arrian had access to eyewitness accounts which are now lost ...