Following Athenophanes' idea, Stephanus sets himself aflame with Naphtha.

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Related Conflict :	Wars of Alexander The Great
Perpetrator (Person) :	Stephanus, Age: youth, Activity: artist, Direct Consequence: injury
Victim (Person) :	Stephanus, Age: youth, Activity: artist, Direct Consequence: injury
Third Party (Person) :	Alexander III the Great Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler, Reaction: shock Athenophanes Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: slave/servant
Third Party (Group) :	Origin: Mixed, Age: mixed, Activity: slave/servant, Reaction: help
Level :	intrapersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Alexander 35.4Plutarch Alexander 35.4 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Mesopotamia (Mesopotamia)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	331 B.C.
Context :	entertaining civilian
Motivation :	none/accident
Application :	burning
Weapon :	boiling/burning liquid
Original Text :	προθύμως δέ πως καὶ τοῦ παιδαρίου διδόντος ἑαυτὸν πρὸς τὴν πεῖραν, ἅμα τῷ περιαλεῖψαι καὶ θιγεῖν ἐξήνθησε φλόγα τοσαύτην τὸ σῶμα καὶ πυρὶ κατεσχέθη τὸ πᾶν ὥστε τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον εἰς πᾶν ἀπορίας καὶ δέους ἐλθεῖν εἰ δὲ μὴ κατὰ τύχην πολλοὶ παρῆσαν ἀγγεῖα πρὸς τὸ λουτρὸν ὕδατος διὰ χειρῶν ἔχοντες, οὐκ ἂν ἔφθασεν ἡ βοήθεια τὴν ἐπινομήν.
Translation :	The youth also, strangely enough, offered himself for the experiment, and as soon as he touched the liquid and began to anoint himself with it, his body broke out into so great a flame and was so wholly possessed by fire that Alexander fell into extreme perplexity and fear; and had it not been by chance that many were standing by holding vessels of water for the bath, the youth would have been consumed before aid reached him.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
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