Many prisoners in the Persis are killed on Alexander's orders.

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Related Conflict :	Wars of Alexander The Great
Perpetrator (Person) :	Alexander III the Great Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Alexander III the Great Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Persian, Age: mixed, Activity: prisoner, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Alexander 37.2Plutarch Alexander 37.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Persis (Persis)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign institutional
Motivation :	following orders political
Original Text :	φόνον μὲν οὖν ἐνταῦθα πολὺν τῶν ἁλισκομένων γενέσθαι συνέπεσε γράφει γὰρ αὐτός ὡς νομίζων αὐτῷ τοῦτο λυσιτελεῖν ἐκέλευεν ἀποσφάττεσθαι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους:
Translation :	In this country, then, as it turned out, there was a great slaughter of the prisoners taken; for Alexander himself writes that he gave orders to have the inhabitants butchered, thinking that this would be to his advantage;
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
Remark :	motive: Alexander probably hoped to gain some political advantages through this execution.
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