Athenians send freebooters to Pylos to ravage Laconia

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Related Conflict :	Peloponnesian War
Perpetrator (Group) :	Athenians Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: pirate, Direct Consequence: victory
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Other, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Direct Consequence: losses
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Nicias 10.8Plutarch Nicias 10.8 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Pylos (Pilos)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	5 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign
Motivation :	political
Long-Term Consequence :	declaration of war
Original Text :	καὶ λῃστὰς εἰς Πύλον ἔπεμψαν κακουργεῖν τὴν Λακωνικήν: ἐξ ὧν αὖθις εἰς πόλεμον κατέστησαν.
Translation :	[...] the Athenians [...] sent freebooters to Pylos to ravage Laconia, and thus plunged again into war.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
Remark :	long-term consequence: According to Plutarch this and other actions of the Athenians led to the end of the Peace of Nicias (cf. 10.8).
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