Six thousand Thebans die during the sack of Thebes.

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Related Conflict :	Battle of Thebes 335BC
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 (Group) :	Origin: Theban, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: death Origin: Theban, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Alexander 11.6Plutarch Alexander 11.6 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Thebai (Thebes)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	335 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign sack
Motivation :	tactical/strategical
Original Text :	οἱ δὲ ἀποθανόντες ὑπὲρ ἑξακισχιλίους ἦσαν.
Translation :	those who had been slain were more than six thousand.
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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