Antipater kills his mother.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Antipater Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
Victim (Person) :	Thessalonica Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Demetrius 36.1Plutarch Demetrius 36.1 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 :	death
Original Text :	ἐπεὶ Κασάνδρου τελευτήσαντος ὁ πρεσβύτατος αὐτοῦ τῶν παίδων Φίλιππος οὐ πολὺν χρόνον βασιλεύσας Μακεδόνων ἀπέθανεν, οἱ λοιποὶ δύο πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐστασίαζον, θατέρου δὲ αὐτῶν Ἀντιπάτρου τὴν μητέρα Θεσσαλονίκην φονεύσαντος, ἅτερος ἐκάλει βοηθοὺς ἐκ μὲν Ἠπείρου Πύρρον, ἐκ δὲ Πελοποννήσου Δημήτριον.
Translation :	After Cassander's death, the eldest of his sons, Philip, reigned for a short time over the Macedonians and then died, and the two remaining brothers quarrelled with one another over the succession. One of them, Antipater, murdered his mother, Thessalonicé, and the other, Alexander, summoned to his help Pyrrhus from Epeirus, and Demetrius from Peloponnesus.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1920. 9.
Remark :	date: The date is taken from the New Pauly. http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/thessalonica-e1210990 long-term consequence: Alexander is killed by Demetrius' guards after he sent for his help. This is mentioned in 36.6.
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