person
Philip III Arrhidaeus
Arrhidaeus
The mentally feeble half-brother of Alexander the Great, made nominal king of Macedon after Alexander's death because of his lineage, not his fitness; Seneca's example of a throne owed to ancestry.
Reading notes
- On Benefits §4.31.1 Arrhidaeus
Philip III Arrhidaeus, Alexander the Great's feeble-minded half-brother, made king of Macedon for his blood, not his fitness.