Pyrrhus overruns Thessaly.

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Pyrrhus Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier Origin: Thessalian, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Demetrius 40.1Plutarch Demetrius 40.1 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Thessalia (Thessaly)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	3 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign
Motivation :	tactical/strategical political
Long-Term Consequence :	campaign garrisoning of troops retreat
Original Text :	Πύρρου δὲ Θεσσαλίαν κατατρέχοντος καὶ μέχρι Θερμοπυλῶν παραφανέντος, Ἀντίγονον ἐπὶ τῆς πολιορκίας ἀπολιπὼν αὐτὸς ὥρμησεν ἐπ᾽ ἐκεῖνον. ὀξέως δὲ φυγόντος, ἐν Θεσσαλίᾳ καταστήσας μυρίους ὁπλίτας καὶ χιλίους ἱππεῖς, αὖθις ἐνέκειτο ταῖς Θήβαις
Translation :	But Pyrrhus now overran Thessaly and was seen as far south as Thermopylae; Demetrius therefore left Antigonus to conduct the siege of Thebes, and himself set out against this new foe. Pyrrhus, however, made a swift retreat, whereupon Demetrius stationed ten thousand men-at-arms and a thousand horsemen in Thessaly and once more devoted himself to Thebes.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1920. 9.
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