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Of Thebe's motive for the murder different accounts are given.

Plutarch states it to have been fear of her husband, together with hatred of his cruel and brutal character, and ascribes these feelings principally to the representations of Pelopidas, when she visited him in his prison.

In Cicero the deed is ascribed to jealousy.

Other accounts have it that Alexander had taken Thebe's youngest brother as his eromenos and tied him up.

Exasperated by his wife's pleas to release the youth, he murdered the boy, which drove her to revenge.