Alexander's family is exterminated
310 BCE* · Event
One by one the successors dispose of the house they claim to serve: the half-wit king Philip III forced to die by Olympias, Olympias herself stoned by Cassander's soldiers, and finally — around 310 — the teenage Alexander IV and his mother Roxana quietly poisoned in prison. Within a generation of the conqueror's death, not one of his blood is left alive.
On these timelines: The Wars of the Diadochi, Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great's Conquests, Master, Women in history
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