Alaksandu
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Alaksandu is addressed as king of Wilusa by Muwatalli II in ca. 1280 BC.
Alaksandu is the successor of one Kikunni. Muwtalli recalls the friendship of Kikunni with his own grandfather, Suppiluliuma I, evoking some three centuries of friendship between the Hittites and Wilusa.
Muwatalli in his letter downplays the importance of royal ancestry, suggesting that Alaksandu had come to power by other means than succession, so that Alaksandu is not necessarily a blood-relation of Kikunni's. This has been taken as a hint that he may have been an early Greek ruler called Alexander, and he has been associated with Homer's Alexander of Ilion.
