Pyrrhus kills Neoptolemus on a sacrificial day.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
Victim (Person) :	Neoptolemus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	interpersonal intrasocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pyrrhus 5.6Plutarch Pyrrhus 5.6 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Epiros (Epeirus)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	290 B.C.
Context :	conspiracy entertaining religious
Motivation :	political
Original Text :	πυθόμενος δὲ ὁ Πύρρος ἐκεῖ μὲν ἡσυχίαν ἦγεν, ἐν δὲ θυσίᾳ καλέσας ἐπὶ δεῖπνον τὸν Νεοπτόλεμον ἀπέκτεινεν
Translation :	When Pyrrhus learned of it, he kept quiet for a time, but on a day of sacrifice invited Neoptolemus to supper and killed him.
Edition :	Plutarch Lives IX: Demetrius and Antony, Pyrrhus and Caius Marius, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 101), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1968 (first ed. 1920).
Notes :	Concerning the context: It is entertainig because Neoptolemus was invited to supper. The conspiracy is described in more detail in the paragraphs 5.2-5-5.
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