Alexander III plunders and destroys Thebes.

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Related Conflict :	Battle of Thebes 335BC
Perpetrator (Person) :	Alexander III the Great Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Alexander III the Great Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Theban, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: capture Origin: Theban, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Alexander 11.5Plutarch Alexander 11.5 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Thebai (Thebes)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	335 B.C.
Context :	sack plunder war/military campaign
Motivation :	tactical/strategical political
Original Text :	ἡ δὲ πόλις ἥλω καὶ διαρπασθεῖσα κατεσκάφη, τὸ μὲν ὅλον προσδοκήσαντος αὐτοῦ τοὺς Ἕλληνας ἐκπλαγέντας πάθει τηλικούτῳ καὶ πτήξαντας ἀτρεμήσειν, ἄλλως δὲ καὶ καλλωπισαμένου χαρίζεσθαι τοῖς τῶν συμμάχων ἐγκλήμασι: καὶ γὰρ Φωκεῖς καὶ Πλαταιεῖς τῶν Θηβαίων κατηγόρησαν,
Translation :	and their city was taken, plundered, and razed to the ground. This was done, in the main, because Alexander expected that the Greeks would be terrified by so great a disaster and cower down in quiet, but apart from this, he also plumed himself on gratifying the complaints of his allies; for the Phocians and Plataeans had denounced the Thebans.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
Remark :	victim: A part of the Theban population is captured alive and later sold into slavery. This is mentioned in 11.6.
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