Alexander did no favors to his homeland in fighting far away for so long. He disastrously depleted Macedonian manpower. His regent Antipater and his indomitable mother, Olympias, conducted an exhausting power struggle that dominated court life. Macedonian rule did not benefit the Greeks of the Corinthian League much, if at all. They simply installed garrisons in most of the city-states they ruled in the Peloponnese, or at least near
