LOL Alexander "the great" was the 3rd, not the 2nd. Alexander the II was his uncle. You have no clue, do you?
Alexander I the phihellene (Alexander III the greats paternal G.G.G.Grandfather) proved his Greek bloodline in order to compete in the Olympics.
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Alexander I claimed descent from Argive Greeks and Heracles. After a court of Elean hellanodikai determined his claim to be true, he was permitted to participate in the Olympic Games possibly in 504 BC, an honour reserved only for Greeks. He modelled his court after Athens and was a patron of the poets Pindar and Bacchylides, both of whom dedicated poems to Alexander. The earliest reference to an Athenian proxenos, who lived during the time of the Persian wars (c. 490 BC), is that of Alexander I.
Alexander I was given the title "philhellene" (Greek: "φιλέλλην", fond of the Greeks, lover of the Greeks), a title used for Greek patriots
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