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Maybe Basiltheos, a 'god-king'? Alexander forged a massive empire, he could surely invent a new title.
 
I think the title "Megas Basileus" is an appropriate enough Hellenistic equivelant of Latin-derived "Emperor". Autokrator is also of strictly Greek origin.
 
Interesting TL, but i have some questions:

1- In the organization of the provinces, where was assigned Syria? It wasn't better made it an other province, maybe with Cyprus?

2- About the province of Greece, you talked of the Greek lands in hand of Macedonia or all of Greece proper? The Greeks were allies of Alexander, and i guess they will refuse to relinquish their indipendence to him...

3- It may be controversial to proclaim a Macedonian empire and then build a capital in Persia... I guess Alexander chose more Babylon, were also was the tomb of Ephestion, or maybe build the capital in Mesopotamia... suggest OTL Ctesiphont or Baghdad.
 
The Seleucids and Ptolemies called themselves "Basileus", which was understood to have the meaning of king. As for Autokrator or Sebastokrator, I'm fairly confident that these terms only came into use in Roman times- certainly that of "Sebastos", which is a direct Latin to Greek translation of "Augustus".

Correct, and true for later kings of Macedon too. However, the usurper Tryphon, who ruled much of the Seleucid empire around 138-135 B.C., did use the title autocrator. I can't think of any other ruler who did.

I don't know if there even existed a Greek word corresponding to 'emperor' in Alexander's time. The title used by the Persian rulers is rendered as "Great King" in all the English language texts I've seen.
 

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3- It may be controversial to proclaim a Macedonian empire and then build a capital in Persia... I guess Alexander chose more Babylon, were also was the tomb of Ephestion, or maybe build the capital in Mesopotamia... suggest OTL Ctesiphont or Baghdad.

As an alternative may I suggest the site of Antioch, which I think was founded by Seleucid rules and which became later the End-point of the Silk Road? I agree that a capital in Persia doesn't sound too good.

Good TL, anyway. It will be interesting to see this empire power projection into western mediterranean ( how Carthage will develop? Rome later predominancy in the peninsula will be butterflied away?)
 
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