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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 . Alexander eventually regained Macedonia's independence after the end of the Persian Wars . Although Macedon was considered a semi-barbaric state by some Greeks (especially those whose colonies near Macedonia were threatened by Macedonian expansion), Alexander claimed descent from Argive Greeks and Hercules . After a court of Hellanodikai determined his claim to be true, he was permitted to participate in the Olympic Games , an honor reserved only for Greeks. He modeled his court after Athens and was a patron of the poet Pindar . In 450 he was succeeded by his son Perdiccas II .
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