Heracles destroys Troy

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Perpetrator (Person) :	Heracles , mythical Hero Origin: Greek, Age: adult, Activity: other, Direct Consequence: victory
Victim (Person) :	Laomedon King of Troy, mythical Origin: Greek, Age: adult, Activity: other, Direct Consequence: defeat
Victim (Group) :	Trojans mythical context Origin: Greek, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: defeat
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Nicias 1.3Plutarch Nicias 1.3 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Troia (Hisarlık)
Time Periode :	Archaic Greece
Context :	war/military campaign
Motivation :	political other
Long-Term Consequence :	destruction/devastation
Original Text :	ἀπογόνους ὄντας Τρώων, ἔσωζον, αὐτὸς δ᾽ ὑπὸ Λαομέδοντος ἀδικηθεὶς ἀνάστατον ἐποίησε τὴν πόλιν.
Translation :	The Trojans, whose city he [Heracles] had once destroyed because of the wrong done him by Laomedon their king.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
Remark :	motive: Vengeance
Notes :	Plutarch cites other authors here; the event itself is not historical but mythical.
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