Rhoxane and Perdiccas kill Stateira and her sister Drypetis.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Rhoxane Origin: Sogdian, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler Perdiccas Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Victim (Person) :	Stateira Origin: Persian, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler, Direct Consequence: death Drypetis Origin: Persian, Age: adult, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Plutarch, Alexander 77.4Plutarch Alexander 77.4 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Babylon (Babylon)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	323 B.C.
Context :	conspiracy
Motivation :	emotional political
Original Text :	ἡ δὲ Ῥωξάνη κύουσα μὲν ἐτύγχανε καὶ διὰ τοῦτο τιμωμένη παρὰ τοῖς Μακεδόσι: δυσζήλως δὲ ἔχουσα πρὸς τὴν Στάτειραν ἐξηπάτησεν αὐτὴν ἐπιστολῇ τινι πεπλασμένῃ παραγενέσθαι, καὶ προσαγαγοῦσα μετὰ τῆς ἀδελφῆς ἀπέκτεινε, καὶ τοὺς νεκροὺς εἰς τὸ φρέαρ κατέβαλε καὶ συνέχωσεν, εἰδότος ταῦτα Περδίκκου καὶ συμπράττοντος.
Translation :	Now, Roxana was with child, and on this account was held in honour among the Macedonians; but she was jealous of Stateira, and therefore deceived her by a forged letter into coming where she was, and when she had got her there, slew her, together with her sister, threw their bodies into the well, and filled the with earth, Perdiccas being privy to the deed and partner in it.
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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