Pericles give orders to kill the Samian trierarchs and marines

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Pericles Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Other, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death Origin: Other, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pericles 28.2Plutarch Pericles 28.2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Miletos (Miletus)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	5 B.C.
Year :	439 B.C.
Context :	military war/military campaign
Motivation :	political
Application :	head smashing
Weapon :	cudgel/club/stick
Original Text :	ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἀληθεύειν ἔοικεν, ὡς ἄρα τοὺς τριηράρχους καὶ τοὺς ἐπιβάτας τῶν Σαμίων εἰς τὴν Μιλησίων ἀγορὰν καταγαγὼν καὶ σανίσι προσδήσας ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρας δέκα κακῶς ἤδη διακειμένους προσέταξεν ἀνελεῖν, ξύλοις τὰς κεφαλὰς συγκόψαντας, εἶτα προβαλεῖν ἀκήδευτα τὰ σώματα.
Translation :	But he appears not to speak the truth when he says, forsooth, that Pericles had the Samian trierarchs and marines brought into the market-place of Miletus and crucified there, and that then, when they had already suffered grievously for ten days, he gave orders to break their heads in with clubs and make an end of them, and then cast their bodies forth without burial rites.
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. Their exact activities are trierarchs and marines.
Notes :	Plutarch does not believe that this act of violence actually happenend (Plut. Per. 28.1-3).
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