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While Alexander had been away in the north, making friends and slaughtering foes, rumors were spreading in Greece.
I have it on good authority that the tyrant Alexander is dead, and with him that feckless rabble that his barbarous father called an army.
Now is the time to rise up, cast out the garrisons that he imposed on your fine cities, and retake your liberty!
Alexander was not dead — and when he heard that the Thebans had trapped their Macedonian garrison on the city's acropolis, he was furious.
Ah, Thebes. The city where Oedipus had plucked out his own eyes; where Antigone hanged herself; where Heracles went mad and slew his own family.
For defying Alexander, the Thebans would suffer a new tragedy.