The death of King Philip of Macedon, as recorded by Vincent, an historian who proposed a theory about Alexander's parentage.

But here we'll leave Alexander for a little and tell of the death of his presumed father King Philip of Macedon, as recorded by the historian Vincent le Jacopin (who, in his treatment of the story of Nectanebus, suggested that Nectanebus was Alexander's true father). His version of events is this:

Not long after the noble King Alexander left his father Philip of Macedon and his mother the lady Olympias, there was a king in Bithynia named Pausanias, a most valiant warrior, bold and daring and wise and shrewd in all his deeds, who, according to Vincent's history, was afire with love for the lady Olympias, considered at the time to be the most beautiful queen in the world. Her husband King Philip for his part was an avaricious hoarder of wealth, hated by many of his neighbours as he burdened them with repeated levies and taxes, fleecing them and bleeding them dry. King Pausanias of Bithynia was well aware of this; and when he learned that Alexander, as you heard earlier, had been sent to distant lands and had taken all the young knights of Macedon with him, so that now there was no one left in the kingdom but old, decrepit, battle-weary men, he thought the time was ripe to make his move.