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.
During the night he bivouacked unobserved near the temple of Mercury, distant from Mycalessus about sixteen stades, and at day-break assaulted the town, which was not a large one, and took it;
The Thracians, then, having burst into Mycalessus, plundered both private houses and temples, and butchered the inhabitants, sparing neither old age nor youth, but killing one after another all they met with, both children and women, nay, further, even cattle and beasts of burden, and whatever other living things they saw.
and then in the evening sailed across the Euripus from Chalcis in Euboea, and landing them in Boeotia, led them against Mycalessus.