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The successors of Alexander fight multiple wars against each other.

Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Origin: Mixed, Age: mixed, Activity: monarch/ruler, Direct Consequence: victory
  • Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: mercenary, Direct Consequence: victory
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    Victim (Group) :
  • Origin: Mixed, Age: mixed, Activity: monarch/ruler, Direct Consequence: defeat
  • Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: mercenary, Direct Consequence: defeat
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Plutarch, Demetrius 5.1 Paste CTS-Link
    Time Periode :Hellenistic Greece
    Century :4 B.C.
    3 B.C.
     
    Context :war/military campaign
    Motivation :tactical/strategical
    ambition
    political
     
    Original Text :ἐπεὶ δέ, ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖς Ἐμπεδοκλέους στοιχείοις διὰ τὸ νεῖκος καὶ τὴν φιλίαν ἔνεστι διαφορὰ πρὸς ἄλληλα καὶ πόλεμος, μᾶλλον δὲ τοῖς ἀλλήλων ἁπτομένοις καὶ πελάζουσιν, οὕτω τὸν πᾶσι τοῖς Ἀλεξάνδρου διαδόχοις πρὸς ἀλλήλους ὄντα συνεχῆ πόλεμον αἱ τῶν πραγμάτων καὶ τῶν τόπων συνάφειαι πρὸς ἐνίους ἐποίουν ἐπιφανέστερον καὶ μᾶλλον ἐξέκᾳον, ὥσπερ Ἀντιγόνῳ τότε πρὸς Πτολεμαῖον,
     
    Translation :But just as among the elements of the universe, according to Empedocles, love and hate produce mutual dissension and war, particularly among those elements which touch or lie near one another, so the continuous wars which the successors of Alexander waged against one another were aggravated and more inflamed in some cases by the close proximity of interests and territories, as at this time in the case of Antigonus and Ptolemy.
     
    Edition :Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1920. 9.
     
    Notes :Since this is a reference to all the wars the Diadochi and Epigoni fought against each other we did not single out every participant. The resulting object would have been impossibly large.
     
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    Created at :2016-05-04 : 12:53:43
    Last changed :2020-12-18 : 08:55:28
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00003839
    Static URL :https://ml-s-eris.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/receive/Antiquity_violence_00003839