Revolt and destruction of Thebes

 

Date

Event

Arrian

Curtius

Diodorus

Justin

Plutarch

Other and Secondary

335/09

Revolt of Thebes

1.7-11

 

17.8-14

11.2-3

11-13

Dem 23.2

Bosworth 32-33; MAP: Ashley 176, 178

 

Rebellion in Thebes when hearing rumors Alex is dead (started by Demosthenes)

1.7.1-3

 

17.8.3

 

 

 

 

Thebans seek assistance from other Greeks; Peloponnesians march to Isthmus, Athens sends weapons, but all wait and see

 

 

17.8.3-7

 

 

 

 

March from Pellium to Thebes

1.7.4-6

 

 

 

 

Hammond 1980d

 

Alex has 30,000 I, 3000 C, all veterans

 

 

17.9.3

 

 

 

 

Alex invests Thebes; skirmishing; Alex waits for offer of peace; Thebans call Alex tyrant; enraged, Alex swears to destroy Thebes

1.7.7-9

 

17.9-10

 

 

 

 

Omens predicting the doom  of Thebes

 

 

17.10

 

 

 

 

Macedonian garrison in the Cadmea; Thebans build double stockade to prevent contact

1.7.9-11

 

17.8.3-4

 

 

 

 

Battle plans

 

 

17.11.1-3

 

 

 

 

Battle rages, evenly matched; Macedonians under Perdiccas take the postern gate

 

 

17.11.3-5, 17.12.1-2

 

 

 

 

Battle for the stockade; Thebans flee; city captured and sacked

1.8.1-8

 

17.12.3-5

 

 

 

 

Thebes is captured and sacked; males killed, females raped and enslaved; temple sanctuary violated

 

 

17.13.1-6

 

 

 

 

6000 killed, 30,000 enslaved

 

 

17.14.1

 

 

 

 

Greeks horrified but cowed by the disaster at Thebes

1.9.1-8

 

 

 

 

 

 

All of Thebes but the Cadmea fortress is leveled; the entire population (30,000) is enslaved

1.9.9-10

 

17.13.6-14.3

 

 

FGH 137F1

 

440 talents were raised by the sale of Theban slaves (= 88 drachmae per slave = 6000 d per talent)

 

 

17.14.4

 

 

 

335/10

All other Greek city-states submit; anti-Alexander faction flees; Athens submits and is spared

1.10

 

17.15.3

 

 

 

 

Alexander returns to Macedonia and celebrates Olympic games

1.11.1-2

 

17.16.3-4

 

 

 

 

Alexander ignores requests that he produce an heir before invading Persia

 

 

17.16.2

 

 

 

 

Antipater remains in Macedon as regent with 12,000 inf and 1500 cav

1.11.3

 

17.17.1,5