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Alexander IV was born in the last months of the year 323 BC , or the beginning of 322 BC . With the assassination of Perdiccas in June 320 BC a new regent was named at the Triparadisus , in the person of Antipater . He brought with him Roxana and the two kings to Macedon and gave up the pretence of ruling over all of Alexander the Great's Empire, leaving full control in Egypt and Asia to the Satrap s who occupied these former provinces (see Diadochi ). With the death of the regent in , ignoring his son Cassander . The latter rebelled against his father's choice, and found powerful allies in Eumenes and in Eurydice , the wife of king Philip Arrhidaeus. But Polyperchon could count on no less formidable allies, that is Antigonus , supreme commander of the Macedonian forces in Asia, and Olympias , Alexander the Great's mother. When Cassander assumed in 317 BC full control of Macedon, Polyperchon was forced to flee to Epirus , followed by Roxana and her infant son. A few months later, after Eurydice had made her husband proclaim Cassander the new regent, Olympias was able to persuade her relative Aeacides Of Epirus to invade Macedon with Polyperchon: the attack was a triumphal success since the army refused to fight against the son of Alexander, who Olympias had smartly brought in the campaign. Philip and Eurydice were captured and executed the 25 December 317 BC, leaving Alexander IV sole king and his grandmother supreme. It wasn't fated to last long; the following year ( he secretly commanded Glaucias to assassinate Alexander and his mother, so that nobody could menace his rule; and the orders were immediately executed. REFERENCES
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