 Modern authorities disagree on whether or not this report is true, but if it is, Alexander's prediction would not have required the gift of clairvoyance and would have been largely stating the obvious; he had been dealing with mutiny among the Macedonian troops since before the expedition to India.At that time he formed a special unit of Persian young men, the Epigoni, to be armed and trained in Macedonian ways.On his return from India he hired them exclusively as his bodyguards.