Object Metadata
Alcibiades chases the Spartans in the Naval Battle of Cyzicus and kills Mindarus.

Related Conflict :Peloponnesian War, Battle of Cyzicus
Perpetrator (Person) :
  • Alcibiades Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Fleet of the Athenians Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
  • Fleet of Alcibiades (20 triremes) Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
  •  
    Victim (Person) :
  • Pharnabazus Origin: Persian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Reaction: flight, Direct Consequence: defeat
  • Mindarus Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death
  • Victim (Group) :
  • Fleet of the Spartans Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: flight, Direct Consequence: defeat
  • Army of Pharnabazus Origin: Persian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: defeat
  • Army of Mindarus Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: defeat
  •  
     
    Level :intersocial
    Source :Plutarch, Alcibiades 28.5 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Kyzikos (Cyzicus)
    Time Periode :Classical Greece
    Century :5 B.C.
    Year :410 B.C.
     
    Context :battle
    naval battle
    war/military campaign
    Motivation :tactical/strategical
     
    Original Text :ὁ δ᾽ Ἀλκιβιάδης εἴκοσι ταῖς ἀρίσταις διεκπλεύσας καὶ προσβαλὼν τῇ γῇ καὶ ἀποβάς, ἐνέκειτο τοῖς φεύγουσιν ἐκ τῶν νεῶν καὶ πολλοὺς ἔφθειρε: Μινδάρου δὲ καὶ Φαρναβάζου προσβοηθούντων κρατήσας, τὸν μὲν Μίνδαρον ἀνεῖλεν ἐρρωμένως ἀγωνιζόμενον, ὁ δὲ Φαρνάβαζος ἔφυγε.
     
    Translation :Then Alcibiades with twenty of his best ships broke though their line, put to shore, and disembarking his crews, attacked his enemy as they fled from their ships, and slew many of them. Mindarus and Pharnabazus, who came to their aid, he overwhelmed; Mindarus was slain fighting sturdily, but Pharnabazus made his escape.
     
    Edition :Plutarch Lives IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Lysander and Sulla, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 80), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 2000 (first ed. 1916).
     
     
    Basket :Add to basket...
    Share/Save :Share/Save
     
    Created at :2013-09-20 : 09:09:45
    Last changed :2020-10-06 : 03:15:08
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00000681
    Static URL :https://ml-s-eris.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/receive/Antiquity_violence_00000681