Thebes is destroyed by Alexander.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Alexander III the Great Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Alexander III the Great Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Thebans Origin: Theban, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Phocion 17.2Plutarch Phocion 17.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Thebai (Thebes)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	335 B.C.
Context :	military
Motivation :	tactical/strategical
Original Text :	ὡς δὲ ἀπωλώλεισαν αἱ Θῆβαι καὶ ὁ Ἀλέξανδρος ἐξῃτεῖτο τοὺς περὶ Δημοσθένην καὶ Λυκοῦργον καὶ Ὑπερείδην καὶ Χαρίδημον, ἡ δὲ ἐκκλησία πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ἀπέβλεπεν, ὀνομαστὶ πολλάκις καλούμενος ἀνέστη
Translation :	And when Thebes had been destroyed and Alexander was demanding the surrender of Demosthenes, Lycurgus, Hypereides, Charidemus, and others, and the assembly turned their eyes upon Phocion and called upon him many times by name, [...]
Edition :	Plutarch's Lives VIII: Sertorius and Eumenes, Phocion and Cato the Younger, ed. Bernadotte Perrin, Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - William Heinemann Ltd.: London 1919 (The Loeb Classical Library 100).
Notes :	Thebes had unsuccessfully revolted against Alexander.
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