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{{quote|''I foresee great contests at my funeral games.''|'''Alexander the Great'''}}
''[[Funeral Games]]'' is the final book in [[Mary Renault
The king is dead. Having conquered Persia and beyond, Alexander falls ill and dies while in Babylon, the capital of his new empire. Having left no heir and no instructions for a regent, his deaths sparks a succession crisis which swiftly engulfs the Macedonian Empire. With everyone staking their claim for the throne or the regency, Greece and Persia are torn asunder by in-fighting and political scheming. When the dust settles, many are dead, and the empire is irreversibly fractured into several warring factions. It took Alexander seven years to carve out his empire; it would collapse in as many years.
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'''Warning: Spoilers Ahead...'''
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* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Ptolemy chooses to eschew from making a bid for supreme power, allowing him to keep his hands clean while the rest of Alexander's generals start [[Kick the Dog|kicking dogs]].
* [[The Empire]]: Macedon has become this by the time of Alexander's death, although it eventually [[Balkanize Me|Balkanises]] by the end of the story.
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Having seized control of Macedon, Olympias precedes to wipe out the Antipatrids, causing her [[
* [[Karmic Death]]: Roxanne and her son, Alexander IV, are poisoned in an identical way to how Roxanne murdered Stateira.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Anyone significantly involved in the succession crisis has at least one moment like this.
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