This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
Table of Contents:
[3]
And certainly the murder of Cleitus,
1 which he committed in his cups, and the cowardly refusal of his Macedonians to follow him against the Indians,
2 whereby they as it were robbed his expedition and his glory of their consummation, he was wont to attribute to the vengeful wrath of Dionysus.
3 And there was not a Theban of those that survived who afterwards came to him with any request and did not get what he wanted from him. Thus much concerning Thebes.
4
1 See chapter li.
2 See chapter lxii.
3 This god was said to have been born of Semele, daughter of Cadmus the founder of Thebes.
4 For a full account of Alexander's capture and destruction of Thebes, see Arrian, Anab. i. 8 f.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
This text was converted to electronic form by optical character recognition and has been proofread to a high level of accuracy.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.