Olympias burns Cleopatra and her son to death

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Olympias Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Direct Consequence: victory
Victim (Person) :	Cleopatra Origin: Macedonian, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	interpersonal
Source :	Pausanias the Periegete, Description of Greece 8.7.7Pausanias the Periegete Description of Greece 8.7.7 Paste CTS-Link
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Context :	familicide
Motivation :	ambition political emotional
Application :	other
Weapon :	other/commentary
Long-Term Consequence :	death
Original Text :	[7] ἐπὶ δὲ Φιλίππῳ τελευτήσαντι Φιλίππου παῖδα νήπιον, γεγονότα δὲ ἐκ Κλεοπάτρας ἀδελφιδῆς Ἀττάλου, τοῦτον τὸν παῖδα ὁμοῦ τῇ μητρὶ Ὀλυμπιὰς ἐπὶ σκεύους χαλκοῦ πυρὸς ὑποβεβλημένου διέφθειρεν ἕλκουσα: χρόνῳ δὲ ὕστερον καὶ Ἀριδαῖον ἀπέκτεινεν. ἔμελλε δὲ ἄρα ὁ δαίμων καὶ τὸ γένος τὸ Κασσάνδρου κακῶς ἐξαμήσειν: Κασσάνδρῳ δὲ οἱ παῖδες ἐκ Θεσσαλονίκης γεγόνασι τῆς Φιλίππου, Θεσσαλονίκῃ δὲ ἦσαν καὶ Ἀριδαίῳ μητέρες Θεσσαλαί. τὰ δὲ ἐς Ἀλέξανδρον καὶ τοῖς πᾶσιν ὁμοίως δῆλά ἐστιν Ἀλεξάνδρου θάνατος:
Translation :	[7] On the death of Philip, his infant son by Cleopatra, the niece of Attalus, was along with his mother dragged by Olympias on to a bronze vessel and burned to death. Afterwards Olympias killed Aridaeus also. It turned out that the god intended to mow down to destruction the family of Cassander as well. Cassander's sons were by Thessalonice, the daughter of Philip, and both Thessalonice and Aridaeus had Thessalian women for their mothers. The fate of Alexander is familiar to everybody alike.
Edition :	Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae Descriptio, 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Remark :	application: burning alive weapon: bronze vessel
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