Mycalessus
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in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Ancient Boeotian town.
” Thucydides relates, that when Mycalessus was captured by the Thracians, they put all, even women and children to the sword.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A small, weakly-walled Boeotian town whose population is massacred by Thracian mercenaries.
and then in the evening sailed across the Euripus from Chalcis in Euboea, and landing them in Boeotia, led them against Mycalessus.
For in the rest of the retreat the Thracians advanced in no contemptible manner to meet the Theban horse, which first fell upon them;
And this disaster, which fell on the whole town, was inferior to none in extent, while it was more unexpected and shocking than any other.