An attic barber is tortured, after he informed the people and the archons of Athens about the defeat of the Sicilian Expedition.

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Related Conflict :	Peloponnesian War
Perpetrator (Group) :	Athenians Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: mixed, Reaction: anger, Direct Consequence: other
Victim (Person) :	Attic Barber who informed the polis about the defeat of the Sicilian Expedition Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: other, Direct Consequence: other
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Nicias 30,2Plutarch Nicias 30,2 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Athenai (Athens)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	5 B.C.
Year :	413 B.C.
Context :	war/military campaign
Motivation :	political
Application :	other
Weapon :	other/commentary
Long-Term Consequence :	torture
Original Text :	εἰς τὸν τροχὸν καταδεθεὶς ἐστρεβλοῦτο πολὺν χρόνον, ἕως ἐπῆλθον οἱ τὸ πᾶν κακόν, ὡς εἶχεν, ἀπαγγέλλοντες.
Translation :	He [the barber] was therefore fastened to the wheel and racked a long time, until messengers came with the actual facts of the whole disaster.
Edition :	Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
Remark :	application: Fastening to the wheel and being racked weapon: Torturing wheel
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