To underline
his role as avenger and hegemon of the Corinthian League, and perhaps in the
hope that the Athenians would come to share in the fantasy of this as a war of
revenge, Alexander selected 300 full sets of armor from dead Persians and
ordered them to be sent back to Athens and dedicated to Athena on the
Acropolis. The attached inscription read:
“Alexander son of Philip and the Greeks, except the Lacedaemonians,106 set up these spoils from the barbarians dwelling in Asia” (A.1.16.7).
Alexander the Great:The Invisible Enemy by John Maxwell O’Brien, page 62
