Philip is reconciled to Olympias and Alexander.--Olympias and Alexander returned.--The great wedding.--Preparations for the wedding.--Costly presents.--Celebration of the wedding.--Games and spectacles.--Statues of the gods.--Military procession.--Appearance of Philip.--The scene changed.--Assassination of Philip.--Alexander proclaimed king.--Alexander's speech.--Demosthenes' Philippics.--The Greeks suspected of the murder.--The Persians also.--Alexander's new position.--His designs.--Murderers of Philip punished.--Alexander's first acts.--Parmenio.--Cities of Southern Greece.--Map of Macedon and Greece.--Athens and Corinth.--Thebes.--Sparta.--Conquests of Philip.--Alexander marches southward.--Pass of Thermopylæ.--The Amphictyonic Council.--March through Thessaly.--Alexander's traits of character.--The Thessalians join Alexander.--He sits in the Amphictyonic Council.--Thermopylæ.--Leonidas and his Spartans.--Death of Leonidas.--Spartan valor.--Alexander made commander-in-chief.--He returns to Macedon.