down the wikipedia rabbit hole stumbled upon this story of the killing of the Alexander the Great's father, king Philip. Pretty impressive illustration how brin

down the wikipedia rabbit hole stumbled upon this story of the killing of the Alexander the Great's father, king Philip. Pretty impressive illustration how bringing in personal erotic relationships can complicate things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias_of_Orestis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias_of_Orestis "Pausanias of Orestis, feeling spurned, insulted his romantic rival Pausanias, Attalus's lover, in public. To secure his public honor, Pausanias, the beloved of Attalus, endangered himself in battle while protecting the king. Devastated by his lover's effective suicide, Attalus sought to punish Pausanias of Orestis by getting him drunk and raping him. For any number of reasons, Philip did not punish Attalus for the rape of Philip's former lover; probably as a consolation, Pausanias of Orestis was promoted to the rank of somatophylax.[1] It has been supposed then that Pausanias' motive for killing Philip was at least in part due to personal anger over Philip, who was the host of the party where Pausanias was raped, not having intervened in any way, nor even having reprimanded Attalus."