Robin Lane Fox: Father

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“Olympia's royal ancestry traced back to the hero Achilles, and the blood of Helen of Troy was believed to run on her father's side.”

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.44

“Alexander son of Philip and the Greeks, except the Spartans…, as Sparta did not consider it to be her fathers' practice to follow, but to lead.”

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.123

“When his Macedonians mutinied at the end of their marching, they were said to have ridiculed him and told him to 'go fight alone with his father', meaning Zeus, not Philip.”

Source: Alexander the Great, 1973, p.216