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Pyrrhus attacks Antigonus Gonatas in a narrow pass.

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
  • Origin: Cisalpine Gaul, Age: adult, Activity: mercenary, Direct Consequence: victory
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    Victim (Person) :
  • Antigonus Gonatas Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: defeat
  • Victim (Group) :
  • Army of Antigonus Gonatas Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: confusion, Direct Consequence: defeat
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Plutarch, Pyrrhus 26.3 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Makedonia (Macedonia)
    Time Periode :Hellenistic Greece
    Century :3 B.C.
    Year :273 B.C.
     
    Context :battle
    war/military campaign
    Motivation :ambition
    political
    tactical/strategical
     
    Original Text :ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ πόλεις ἐλάμβανε συχνὰς καὶ στρατιῶται δισχίλιοι μετέστησαν ὡς αὐτόν, ἐλπίσας τι πλέον ὥρμησεν ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀντίγονον καὶ περὶ τὰ Στενὰ προσπεσὼν συνετάραξε τὴν στρατιὰν ἅπασαν,
     
    Translation :But after he had taken a great number of cities and two thousand Macedonian soldiers had come over to him, he began to hope for greater things, and set out to attack Antigonus, and falling upon him in a narrow pass, threw his whole army into confusion.
     
    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 :date: The date is taken from the New Pauly. http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/pyrrhus-e1015710
     
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    Created at :2013-08-04 : 04:25:11
    Last changed :2020-12-11 : 08:30:23
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00000523
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