My own view is that in building Thebes Cassander was mainly influenced by hatred of Alexander. He destroyed the whole house of Alexander to the bitter end. Olympias he threw to the exasperated Macedonians to be stoned to death; and the sons of Alexander, Heracles by Barsina and Alexander by Roxana, he killed by poison. But he himself was not to come to a good end. He was filled with dropsy, and from the dropsy came worms while he was yet alive.
Edition :
Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae Descriptio, 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Remark :
date: The date is taken from the New Pauly: https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/alexander-e114170?s.num=0&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.brill-s-new-pauly&s.q=Alexander
