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Aratus captures Acrocorinth.

Perpetrator (Person) :
  • Aratus of Sicyon Origin: Greek, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: victory
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Army of Aratus Origin: Greek, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: victory
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    Victim (Group) :
  • Macedonian garrison at the Acrocorinth Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: defeat
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Plutarch, Aratus 16.2 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Akrokorinthos (Acrocorinth)
    Time Periode :Hellenistic Greece
    Century :3 B.C.
    Year :243 B.C.
     
    Context :military
    war/military campaign
    Motivation :political
    tactical/strategical
    Long-Term Consequence :conquest
     
    Original Text :ἐνιαυτῷ δὲ ὕστερον αὖθις στρατηγῶν ἐνίστατο τὴν περὶ τὸν Ἀκροκόρινθον πρᾶξιν, οὐ Σικυωνίων οὐδ᾽ Ἀχαιῶν κηδόμενος, ἀλλὰ κοινήν τινα τῆς Ἑλλάδος ὅλης τυραννίδα, τὴν Μακεδόνων φρουράν,
     
    Translation :A year later, being general again, he set on foot the enterprise for the recovery of Acrocorinthus, not in the interests of Sicyonians or Achaeans merely, but purposing to drive from that stronghold what held all Hellas in a common subjection, —the Macedonian garrison.
     
    Edition :Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1926. 11.
     
     
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    Created at :2014-04-22 : 08:43:02
    Last changed :2020-11-16 : 08:59:05
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00001575
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