Alexander III kills Cleitus.

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Related Conflict :	Wars of Alexander The Great
Perpetrator (Person) :	Alexander III the Great Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
Victim (Person) :	Cleitus the Black Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death
Third Party (Person) :	Aristophanes, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: interference
Third Party (Group) :	Friends of Alexander III Origin: Mixed, Age: mixed, Activity: commander/general, Reaction: shock Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: interference
Level :	interpersonal intrasocial
Source :	Plutarch, Alexander 13.3Plutarch Alexander 13.3 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Maracanda (Samarkand)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	328 B.C.
Context :	entertaining
Motivation :	emotional
Application :	beating
Weapon :	spear
Original Text :	ὅλως δὲ καὶ τὸ περὶ Κλεῖτον ἔργον ἐν οἴνῳ γενόμενον καὶ τὴν πρὸς Ἰνδοὺς τῶν Μακεδόνων ἀποδειλίασιν, ὥσπερ ἀτελῆ τὴν στρατείαν καὶ τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ προεμένων, εἰς μῆνιν ἀνῆγε Διονύσου καὶ νέμεσιν.
Translation :	And certainly the murder of Cleitus, which he committed in his cups, and the cowardly refusal of his Macedonians to follow him against the Indians, whereby they as it were robbed his expedition and his glory of their consummation, he was wont to attribute to the vengeful wrath of Dionysus.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
Notes :	The details of this account are taken from Plut. Alex. 51.4-6.
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