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The Battle of Crannon takes place.

Related Conflict :Lamian War
Perpetrator (Person) :
  • Antipater Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Macedonian Army Origin: Macedonian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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    Victim (Person) :
  • Antiphilus Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
  • Victim (Group) :
  • Athenian army Origin: Attic/Athenian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Plutarch, Demosthenes 28.1 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Crannon (Krannonas)
    Time Periode :Hellenistic Greece
    Century :4 B.C.
    Year :322 B.C.
     
    Context :war/military campaign
    Motivation :tactical/strategical
    Long-Term Consequence :declaration of peace/truce
     
    Original Text :οὐ μὴν ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἀπέλαυσε τῆς πατρίδος κατελθών, ἀλλὰ ταχὺ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν πραγμάτων συντριβέντων Μεταγειτνιῶνος μὲν ἡ περὶ Κραννῶνα μάχη συνέπεσε, Βοηδρομιῶνος δὲ παρῆλθεν εἰς Μουνυχίαν ἡ φρουρά, Πυανεψιῶνος δὲ Δημοσθένης ἀπέθανε τόνδε τὸν τρόπον.
     
    Translation :However, he did not enjoy his native city for long after his return from exile, but the cause of Greece was speedily crushed, and in the month of Metageitnion the battle at Crannon took place, in that of Boëdromion the Macedonian garrison entered Munychia, and in that of Pyanepsion Demosthenes died, in the following manner.
     
    Edition :Plutarch Lives VII: Demosthenes and Cicero, Alexander and Caesar, Ed. Jeffrey Henderson, trans. Bernadotte Perrin (The Loeb Classical Library 99), Harvard University Press: Cambridge/MA - London 1967 (first ed. 1919).
     
    Notes :The Battle of Crannon was the final and decisive battle of the Lamian War.
     
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