Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour... — Robin Lane Fox

Supported the belief that he was the Greek gos Zeus's son.

"War", Philip had announced, "was being declared against the Persians on behalf of the Greeks, to punish the barbarians for their lawless treatment of the old Greek temples".

The Macedonian kings, who maintained that their Greek ancestry traced back to Zeus, had long given homes and patronage to Greece's most distinguished artists.