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During the Indian Campaign, Alexander the Great's wife Roxane gave birth to a son who died soon after birth in 326 B.C. WI this son (who we'll call *Alexander IV) managed to survive? Assuming that Alexander dies in 323 B.C. as in OTL, how will things play out?

Obviously there are going to be plenty of civil wars in the near future in this scenario amongst the Macedonian generals as in OTL, but I imagine there would have been more of a chance for some sort of stable regency to emerge if there was already an acknowledged heir, rather than an eventual posthumous son being born and everyone playing the waiting game. After all, Roxane was known to be quite ruthless, and now her position is far more secure and she and any potential allies are in a far better (i.e. more legitimate) position in Babylon to seize power.

Is there any way for this *Alexander IV to eventually attain his majority and rule something of his patrimony, assuming he manages to have the strength of will to do so? A while back, I wrote several versions of my TL about a surviving Argead Empire, and I'm considering a re-write in which *Alexander IV grows to adulthood and somehow secures control of at least Persia, Anatolia and Syria, assuming this is at all possible.

Please, I'd love to hear your thoughts, as I don't think anyone has ever considered this POD here, to my knowledge at least.

Thanks,
Endymion
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