Alexander has Bessus executed by tearing him apart between two trees.

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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) :	Bessus, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Alexander 43.3Plutarch Alexander 43.3 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Bactria (Bactria)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	329 B.C.
Context :	jurisdictional
Motivation :	emotional political
Application :	tearing apart
Original Text :	Ἀλέξανδρος δὲ ὡς ἐπῆλθεν, ἀλγῶν τε τῷ πάθει φανερὸς ἦν καὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ χλαμύδα λύσας ἐπέβαλε τῷ σώματι καὶ περιέστειλε, καὶ Βῆσσον μὲν ὕστερον εὑρὼν διεσφενδόνησεν, ὀρθίων δένδρων εἰς ταὐτὸ καμφθέντων ἐκατέρῳ μέρος προσαρτήσας τοῦ σώματος, εἶτα μεθεὶς ἑκάτερον, ὡς ὥρμητο ῥύμῃ φερόμενον, τὸ προσῆκον αὐτῷ μέρος νείμασθαι.
Translation :	When Alexander came up, he was manifestly distressed by what had happened, and unfastening his own cloak threw it upon the body and covered it. And when, at a later time, he found Bessus, he had him rent asunder. Two straight trees were bent together and a part of his body fastened to each; then when each was released and sprang vigorously back, the part of the body that was attached to it followed after.
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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