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Alexander I (
Greek: Αλέξανδρος ό Μακεδών) was ruler of
Macedon from
498 BC to
454 BC. He was the son of
Amyntas I king of Macedon and Eurydice.
According to
Herodotus he was unfriendly to
Persia, and had the envoys of
Darius I killed when they arrived at the court of his father during the
Ionian Revolt. However, he was forced to submit to Persia during the invasion of
Greece by Darius' son
Xerxes I, and he acted as a representative of the Persian governor
Mardonius during peace negotiations after the Persian defeat at the
Battle of Salamis in
480 BC. Despite his cooperation with Persia, he frequently gave supplies and advice to the Greeks, and warned them of Mardonius' plans before the
Battle of Plataea in
479 BC. After the defeat in Plataea the Persian army, under the command of
Artabazus tried to retreat all the way back to Asia Minor. Most of the 43,000 survivors were attacked and killed by the forces of Alexander at the estuary of the
Strymon river. Alexander eventually regained Macedons independence after the end of the
Persian Wars.
Although Macedon was considered a semi-barbaric state by some Greeks (especially those whose colonies near by were threatened by its expansion), Alexander claimed descent from
Argive Greeks and
Heracles. After a court of
Elean hellanodikai determined his claim to be true, he was permitted to participate in the
Olympic Games possibly in 504 BC an honor reserved only for Greeks. He modeled his court after
Athens and was a patron of the poets
Pindar and
Bacchylides, who both of them dedicated poems to Alexander.
In 450 he was succeeded by his son
Perdiccas II.
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