Pericles breaks up the oligarchical government of Samos

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Pericles Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: victory
Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: victory
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Other, Age: adult, Activity: upper class, Direct Consequence: defeat
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pericles 25.1Plutarch Pericles 25.1 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Samos (Samos)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	5 B.C.
Year :	441 B.C.
Context :	military war/military campaign conquest
Motivation :	political
Long-Term Consequence :	capture issuing of law/decrees
Original Text :	πλεύσας οὖν ὁ Περικλῆς τὴν μὲν οὖσαν ὀλιγαρχίαν ἐν Σάμῳ κατέλυσεν, τῶν δὲ πρώτων λαβὼν ὁμήρους πεντήκοντα καὶ παῖδας ἴσους εἰς Λῆμνον ἀπέστειλε.
Translation :	So Pericles set sail and broke up the oligarchical government which Samos had, and then took fifty of the foremost men of the state, with as many of their children, as hostages, and sent them off to Lemnos.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
Remark :	victim: The vitims are Samian. long-term consequence: Pericles takes a hundred Samians as hostages (Plut. Per. 25.1-2) and sets up a democracy on Samos (Plut. Per. 25.2).
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