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034 Rising Tensions

The History of Ancient Greece

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The History of Macedon

In 510 BC, Persian envoys demanded that Macedonian women be present at a banquet. Amontus didn't want to anger his new Persian masters, and so he acquiesced. The Persians began fondle the breasts and kiss on the Macedonian women. Alexandros found some smooth, chint-young men,. passed them off as ladies by dressing them up in women's clothing, and sent them into the Persians' quarters with the daggers concealed. Their murders were concealed, though Herodotus does mention that they must have gotten rid of the bodies somehow. When Megabasas launched an intensive search to find his missing men, Alexandros bribed the man in charge

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