Antigonus Gonatas besieges Thebes

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Related Conflict :	Conquest of Thebes
Perpetrator (Person) :	Antigonus Gonatas Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Antigonus Gonatas Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Theban, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: fight back Origin: Theban, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Demetrius 40.1Plutarch Demetrius 40.1 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Thebai (Thebes)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	291 B.C.
Context :	military war/military campaign siege
Motivation :	following orders political
Original Text :	Πύρρου δὲ Θεσσαλίαν κατατρέχοντος καὶ μέχρι Θερμοπυλῶν παραφανέντος, Ἀντίγονον ἐπὶ τῆς πολιορκίας ἀπολιπὼν αὐτὸς ὥρμησεν ἐπ᾽ ἐκεῖνον.
Translation :	But Pyrrhus now overran Thessaly and was seen as far south as Thermopylae; Demetrius therefore left Antigonus to conduct the siege of Thebes, and himself set out against this new foe.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1920. 9.
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