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Perdiccas
II was one of five sons of Alexander I, the king who had first proved the
hellenic bona fides of the Argead House to the game marshals at Olympia.
Despite a subsequent blot upon his record as a good Greek when he failed to
join in immediate pursuit of the defeated Persians as they withdrew through his
territories in 479/8 BC
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Out of the
rich spoils of his victory over them he was able to dedicate solid gold statues
of himself at the major Greek shrines of Delphi and Olympia.
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The inherent
value of these splendid monuments (incidentally the earliest know portait
statues of a Greek ruler) has ensured they have long since dissapeared, but
their dedication was enough to secure Alexander’s hellenic status for all time.
“Cleopatras”,
by John Edwin George Whitehorne,page 15
Publisher:Routledge,1994
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