The Athenians attack Sicily in the Sicilian Expedition.

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Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Sicilian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: victory
Victim (Group) :	Fleet of the Athenians Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: defeat Athenian army Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: defeat
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Timoleon 35.2Plutarch Timoleon 35.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Sikelia (Sicily)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	4 B.C.
Year :	415 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign
Motivation :	following orders ambition political
Long-Term Consequence :	conquest
Original Text :	καὶ γὰρ Ἀκράγαντα καὶ Γέλαν, πόλεις μεγάλας μετὰ τὸν Ἀττικὸν πόλεμον ὑπὸ Καρχηδονίων ἀναστάτους γεγενημένας, τότε κατῴκισαν, τὴν μὲν οἱ περὶ Μέγελλον καὶ Φέριστον ἐξ Ἐλέας, τὴν δὲ οἱ περὶ Γόργον ἐκ Κέω πλεύσαντες καὶ συναγαγόντες τοὺς ἀρχαίους πολίτας
Translation :	grigentum and Gela, for instance, great cities which had been ruined and depopulated by the Carthaginians after the Attic war, were repeopled at this time, one by Megellus and Pheristus from Velia, the other by Gorgus, who sailed from Ceos and brought with his company the old citizens.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. 6.
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