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Ptolemaeus of Alorus assassinates Alexander II

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  • Alexander II Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler, Direct Consequence: death
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    Level :interpersonal
    Source :Diodorus of Sicily, Bibliotheca historica 15.71.1 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Makedonia (Macedonia)
    Time Periode :Classical Greece
    Century :4 B.C.
    Year :368 B.C.
     
    Context :regicide
    Motivation :ambition
    Long-Term Consequence :other
     
    Original Text :ἐπ᾽ ἄρχοντος δ᾽ Ἀθήνησι Ναυσιγένους ἐν Ῥώμῃ χιλίαρχοι κατεστάθησαν ἀντὶ τῶν ὑπάτων τέτταρες, Λεύκιος Παπίριος, Λεύκιος Μενήνιος, Σερούιος Κορνήλιος, Σερούιος Σολπίκιος, παρὰ δὲ Ἠλείοις Ὀλυμπιὰς ἤχθη τρίτη πρὸς ταῖς ἑκατόν, καθ᾽ ἣν ἐνίκα στάδιον Πυθόστρατος Ἀθηναῖος. ἐπὶ δὲ τούτων Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Ἀλωρίτης ὁ Ἀμύντου υἱὸς ἐδολοφόνησεν Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν ἀδελφόν, καὶ ἐβασίλευσε τῆς Μακεδονίας ἔτη τρία.
     
    Translation :When Nausigenes was archon at Athens, in Rome four military tribunes with consular power were elected, Lucius Papirius, Lucius Menenius, Servius Cornelius, and Servius Sulpicius; and the Eleians celebrated the hundred third Olympiad, in which Pythostratus the Athenian won the stadium race. During their term of office Ptolemy of Alorus, son of Amyntas, assassinated Alexander, his brother-in-law, and was king of Macedon for three years.
     
    Edition :Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
     
    Remark :long-term consequence: Ptolemaeus of Alorus became king of Macedonia.
     
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    Created at :2019-04-23 : 07:50:42
    Last changed :2019-04-24 : 09:22:51
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00004539
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