Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Timoclea of Thebes and the killing of a Thracian commander, acquitted by Alexander the Great

Timoclea, a noblewoman of Thebes raped after the city's capture, is said to have lured the commander of the Thracians into her garden with a promise to show him treasure in a well. And show him she did, pushing her assailant in and heaping stones upon him. Alexander the Great, on hearing the story, acquitted her

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