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Pyrrhus' Gaul troops are attacked in Argos during the night.

Related Conflict :Battle of Argos
Perpetrator (Person) :
  • Alcyoneus Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: stalemate
  • Areus Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: stalemate
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Army of Antigonus Gonatas Origin: Cretan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: stalemate
  • Army of Areus Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: stalemate
  • Army of Areus Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: stalemate
  • Generals of Antigonus Gonatas Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: stalemate
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    Victim (Group) :
  • Army of Pyrrhus Origin: Celtic, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: confusion, Direct Consequence: stalemate
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    Third Party (Person) :
  • Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Reaction: help
  • Third Party (Group) :
  • Army of Antigonus Gonatas Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
  • Army of Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: help
  • Origin: Argive, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Plutarch, Pyrrhus 32.2 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Argos (Argos)
    Time Periode :Hellenistic Greece
    Century :3 B.C.
    Year :272 B.C.
     
    Context :battle
    war/military campaign
    Motivation :following orders
    self-defence
     
    Original Text :ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς μὲν ἐγγὺς προσελάσας ἐφήδρευε, τοὺς δὲ στρατηγοὺς καὶ τὸν υἱὸν εἰσέπεμψε συχνὴν βοήθειαν ἄγοντας. ἧκε δὲ καὶ Ἄρευς ἔχων χιλίους Κρῆτας καὶ Σπαρτιάτας τοὺς ἐλαφροτάτους, καὶ πάντες ἅμα τοῖς Γαλάταις προσβαλόντες εἰς πολὺν θόρυβον κατέστησαν αὐτούς, ὁ δὲ Πύρρος εἰσιὼν μετ᾽ ἀλαλαγμοῦ καὶ βοῆς παρὰ τὴν Κυλάραβιν, ὡς οἱ Γαλάται τοῖς περὶ αὐτὸν ἀντηλάλαξαν οὐκ ἰταμὸν οὐδὲ θαρραλέον, εἴκασε ταραττομένων εἶναι τὴν φωνὴν καὶ πονούντων.
     
    Translation :Antigonus marched up close to the city, and lying in wait there himself, sent his generals and his son inside with a considerable relief-force. Areus also came, with a thousand Cretans and Spartans (the most lightly armed). All these troops united in an assault upon the Gauls and threw them into great confusion. And Pyrrhus, who now entered the city with shouts and cries by way of Cylarabis, noticed that the Gauls did not answer his men with any vigour or courage, and therefore conjectured that their response was that of men confounded and in distress
     
    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
    long-term consequence: Because his troops do not answer him, Pyrrhus marches into the city himself, where he dies soon after in a streetfight. His death is mentioned in 34.3.
     
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    Created at :2013-08-29 : 09:56:48
    Last changed :2020-12-15 : 08:56:03
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00000632
    Static URL :https://ml-s-eris.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/receive/Antiquity_violence_00000632