Many members of the dynasties of the Diadochi kill their own close relatives.

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Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Macedonian, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Macedonian, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Demetrius 3.4Plutarch Demetrius 3.4 Paste CTS-Link
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Context :	conspiracy familicide
Motivation :	ambition political
Original Text :	αἱ δὲ ἄλλαι σχεδὸν ἅπασαι διαδοχαὶ πολλῶν μὲν ἔχουσι παίδων, πολλῶν δὲ μητέρων φόνους καὶ γυναικῶν: τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἀδελφοὺς ἀναιρεῖν, ὥσπερ οἱ γεωμέτραι τὰ αἰτήματα λαμβάνουσιν, οὕτω συνεχωρεῖτο κοινόν τι νομιζόμενον αἴτημα καὶ βασιλικὸν ὑπὲρ ἀσφαλείας.
Translation :	But almost all the other lines afford many examples of men who killed their sons, and of many who killed their mothers and wives; and as for men killing their brothers, just as geometricians assume their postulates, so this crime came to be a common and recognized postulate in the plans of princes to secure their own safety.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1920. 9.
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