Alexander takes and plunders Damascus.

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Related Conflict :	Wars of Alexander The Great
Perpetrator (Person) :	Alexander III the Great Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: victory
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Alexander III the Great Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: victory
Victim (Person) :	Antigone Origin: Macedonian, Age: youth, Direct Consequence: enslavement
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Damascenean, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: defeat Origin: Damascenean, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: capture
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Alexander 48.3Plutarch Alexander 48.3 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Damaskos (Damascus, Dimashq)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	333 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign plunder
Motivation :	economical tactical/strategical
Original Text :	ὅτε γὰρ τὰ περὶ Δαμασκὸν ἑάλω χρήματα Δαρείου νικηθέντος ἐν Κιλικίᾳ, πολλῶν σωμάτων κομισθέντων εἰς τὸ στρατόπεδον εὑρέθη γύναιον ἐν τοῖς αἰχμαλώτοις, τῷ μὲν γένει Πυδναῖον, εὐπρεπὲς δὲ τὴν ὄψιν ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ Ἀντιγόνη,
Translation :	For when Dareius had been defeated in Cilicia and the wealth of Damascus was taken, among the many prisoners brought into the camp there was found a young woman, born in Pydna, and comely to look upon; her name was Antigone.
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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