Object Metadata
Pyrrhus attacks the Carthaginian fortress Eryx.

Related Conflict :Pyrrhic War
Perpetrator (Person) :
  • Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: victory
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Army of Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: victory
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    Victim (Group) :
  • Origin: Phoenician, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: defeat
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Plutarch, Pyrrhus 22.5 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Eryx (Erice)
    Time Periode :Hellenistic Greece
    Roman Republic
    Century :3 B.C.
    Year :278 B.C.
     
    Context :conquest
    war/military campaign
    Motivation :ambition
    tactical/strategical
    political
     
    Original Text :καὶ τῆς στρατιᾶς γενομένης ἑτοίμης ἐνεδύσατο τὴν πανοπλίαν, καὶ προελθὼν εὔξατο τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ ποιήσειν ἀγῶνα καὶ θυσίαν ἀριστεῖον, ἂν τοῦ γένους καὶ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων ἄξιον ἀγωνιστὴν αὑτὸν ἀποδείξῃ τοῖς Σικελίαν οἰκοῦσιν Ἕλλησι:
     
    Translation :So when his army was ready, he put on his armour, went out to battle, and made a vow to Heracles that he would institute games and a sacrifice in his honour, if the god would render him in the sight of the Sicilian Greeks an antagonist worthy of his lineage and resources;
     
    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).
     
    Remark :perpetrator: The victory is described in 22.6.
     
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    Created at :2013-07-29 : 05:42:14
    Last changed :2020-12-10 : 09:06:04
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00000489
    Static URL :https://ml-s-eris.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/receive/Antiquity_violence_00000489