Cassander lets the Macedonians stone Olympias to death.

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Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Person) :	Olympias Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Direct Consequence: death
Third Party (Person) :	Cassander Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
Level :	intrasocial
Source :	Pausanias the Periegete, Description of Greece 9.7.2Pausanias the Periegete Description of Greece 9.7.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Pydna (Pydna)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	316 B.C.
Context :	institutional
Motivation :	political emotional
Application :	throwing weapon
Weapon :	stone
Long-Term Consequence :	victory
Original Text :	δοκεῖ δέ μοι τὰς Θήβας οἰκίσαι ὁ Κάσσανδρος κατὰ ἔχθος Ἀλεξάνδρου μάλιστα: ἐπεξῆλθε δὲ καὶ τὸν πάντα οἶκον Ἀλεξάνδρου φθείρων, ὃς Ὀλυμπιάδα γε παρέβαλε καταλεῦσαι τοῖς ἐπ᾽ αὐτὴν Μακεδόνων παρωξυσμένοις καὶ τοὺς παῖδας Ἀλεξάνδρου τόν τε ἐκ Βαρσίνης Ἡρακλέα καὶ Ἀλέξανδρον τὸν ἐκ Ῥωξάνης ἀπέκτεινεν ὑπὸ φαρμάκων. οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ αὐτὸς χαίρων τὸν βίον κατέστρεψεν: ἐπλήσθη γὰρ ὑδέρῳ, καὶ ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ ζῶντι ἐγένοντο εὐλαί.
Translation :	My own view is that in building Thebes Cassander was mainly influenced by hatred of Alexander. He destroyed the whole house of Alexander to the bitter end. Olympias he threw to the exasperated Macedonians to be stoned to death; and the sons of Alexander, Heracles by Barsina and Alexander by Roxana, he killed by poison. But he himself was not to come to a good end. He was filled with dropsy, and from the dropsy came worms while he was yet alive.
Edition :	Pausanias. Pausaniae Graeciae Descriptio, 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Remark :	date: The date is taken from the New Pauly: https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/cassander-e610100#
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