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Antigonus is killed at Ipsus.

Related Conflict :Battle of Ipsus
Perpetrator (Person) :
  • Cassander Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
  • Lysimachus Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
  • Seleucus I Nicator Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Army of Seleucus I Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
  • Army of Lysimachus Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
  • Army of Cassander Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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    Victim (Person) :
  • Antigonus Monophthalmus Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death
  • Victim (Group) :
  • Army of Antigonus Monophthalmus Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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    Level :intrasocial
    Source :Plutarch, Phocion 29.1 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Ipsos (Ipsus)
    Time Periode :Hellenistic Greece
    Century :4 B.C.
    Year :301 B.C.
     
    Context :war/military campaign
    Motivation :tactical/strategical
     
    Original Text :καὶ τοῦτο ὅπερ ὕστερον, ἀναιρεθέντος Ἀντιγόνου καὶ τῶν ἀνελόντων ἐκεῖνον ἀρξαμένων βιάζεσθαι καὶ λυπεῖν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, ἀνὴρ ἄγροικος ἐν Φρυγίᾳ χωρίον ὀρύττων πυθομένου τινός, ‘τί ποιεῖς;’ στενάξας, ‘Ἀντίγονον,’ εἶπε, ‘ζητῶ:’
     
    Translation :At a later time, after Antigonus had been slain, and those who slew him began to oppress and vex the people, a peasant in Phrygia who was digging on his farm was asked by someone what he was doing, and answered: ‘I am looking for Antigonus.’
     
    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).
     
     
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    Created at :2020-09-06 : 12:17:37
    Last changed :2021-01-15 : 10:11:17
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00005318
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