The Athenian people kill Pericles the Younger along with his fellow-generals

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Related Conflict :	Peloponnesian War
Perpetrator (Group) :	Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: mixed
Victim (Person) :	Pericles the Younger Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death
Victim (Group) :	Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general, Direct Consequence: death
Level :	intersocial
Source :	Plutarch, Pericles 37.5Plutarch Pericles 37.5 Paste CTS-Link
Location :	Athenai (Athens)
Time Periode :	Classical Greece
Century :	5 B.C.
Year :	406 B.C.
Context :	jurisdictional
Motivation :	emotional political
Original Text :	καὶ τοῦτον μὲν ὕστερον ἐν Ἀργινούσαις καταναυμαχήσαντα Πελοποννησίους ἀπέκτεινεν ὁ δῆμος μετὰ τῶν συστρατήγων.
Translation :	This was the son who afterwards conquered the Peloponnesians in a naval battle at the Arginusae islands, and was put to death by the people along with his fellow-generals.
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: Pericles the Younger and his colleagues are executed because they failed to save the shipwrecked Athenians after the naval battle at the Arginusae islands (https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/pericles-e913920#e913990).
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