He overthrew Persia by defeating Darius in battle.
Cassander murdered this man's first wife and first son. This man's mother belonged to a snake-worshipping cult. He married Stateira in a mass ceremony at Susa, even though he was already married to Roxana. This son of Olympias built a pyre sixty meters tall for his longtime lover Hephaestion, the captain of this man's (*) Companion Cavalry. He was buried in a gold sarcophagus filled with honey. This man rode the horse Bucephalus. After this man died in Babylon, the Hellenistic period and the wars of the Diadochi began. He overthrew Persia by defeating Darius in battle. For 10 points, name this son of Philip of Macedon, a great conqueror.
Cassander murdered this man's first wife and first son. This man's mother belonged to a snake-worshipping cult.
Alexander the Great [or Alexander III]