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Alexander kills Polymachus for plundering the tomb of Cyrus.

Related Conflict :Wars of Alexander The Great
Perpetrator (Person) :
 
Victim (Person) :
  • Polymachus Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Direct Consequence: death
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    Level :interpersonal
    Source :Plutarch, Alexander 69.2 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Persia (Persia)
    Time Periode :Hellenistic Greece
    Century :4 B.C.
    Year :324 B.C.
     
    Context :jurisdictional
    Motivation :political
    social
     
    Original Text :ἔπειτα τὸν Κύρου τάφον εὑρὼν διορωρυγμένον ἀπέκτεινε τὸν ἀδικήσαντα, καίτοι Πελλαῖος ἦν οὐ τῶν ἀσημοτάτων ὁ πλημμελήσας, ὄνομα Πολύμαχος. τὴν δὲ ἐπιγραφὴν ἀναγνούς ἐκέλευσεν Ἑλληνικοῖς ὑποχαράξαι γράμμασιν.
     
    Translation :In the second place, having discovered that the tomb of Cyrus had been rifled, he put to death the perpetrator of the deed, although the culprit was a prominent Macedonian native of Pella, by name Polymachus. After reading the inscription upon this tomb, he ordered it to be repeated below in Greek letters.
     
    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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    Created at :2015-07-14 : 10:48:13
    Last changed :2021-01-15 : 09:43:52
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00002659
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