Pyrrhus takes part in a fierce battle during the siege of Sparta.

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Related Conflict :	Siege of Sparta
Perpetrator (Person) :	Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :	Army of Pyrrhus Origin: Epirotan, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Spartan, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pyrrhus 28.4Plutarch Pyrrhus 28.4 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Sparte / Lakedaimon (Sparta)
Time Periode :	Hellenistic Greece
Century :	3 B.C.
Year :	272 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign siege
Motivation :	ambition
Original Text :	κατὰ δὲ τὸν Πύρρον αὐτὸν ἰσχυρᾶς μάχης συνεστώσης ἄλλοι τε λαμπρῶς ἠγωνίζοντο [...]
Translation :	A fierce battle was also waged where Pyrrhus himself led [...]
Edition :	Plutarch Lives IX: Demetrius and Antony, Pyrrhus and Caius Marius, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 101), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1968 (first ed. 1920).
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