Antipater kills his mother.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Antipater Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
Victim (Person) :	Thessalonica Origin: Macedonian, Age: old, Activity: monarch/ruler, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	interpersonal intrasocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pyrrhus 6.2Plutarch Pyrrhus 6.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Makedonia (Macedonia)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	294 B.C.
Context :	conspiracy matricide regicide
Motivation :	ambition political
Long-Term Consequence :	campaign
Original Text :	τῶν Κασάνδρου παίδων ὁ πρεσβύτερος Ἀντίπατρος τήν τε μητέρα Θεσσαλονίκην ἀνεῖλε καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἀλέξανδρον ἤλαυνεν.
Translation :	Of Cassander's sons, the elder, Antipater, killed his mother Thessalonicé and drove away his brother Alexander.
Edition :	Plutarch Lives IX: Demetrius and Antony, Pyrrhus and Caius Marius, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 101), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1968 (first ed. 1920).
Remark :	motive: The motive is political because Antipater killed her to achieve sole control over Macedonia, according to the New Pauly. http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/thessalonica-e1210990 long-term consequence: Alexander calls on Pyrrhus and Demetrius for help and Pyrrhus defeats Antipater in war. This is mentioned in 6.3.
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