公元前427年,雅典派船前往米蒂利尼(Mytilene),指示其杀死城邦所有成年男子。 第二天,雅典人投票决定改变他们的决定-派出了第二艘船。 整夜奔波,它及时到达米蒂利尼,以防止大屠杀的发生。
Mytilenean Debate Allies in the Peloponnesian War. The Mytilenean Debate (also spelled “Mytilenaean Debate”) is the Athenian Assembly concerning reprisals against the city-state of Mytilene, which had attempted unsuccessfully to shake off Athenian hegemony during the Peloponnesian War. The Debate occurred in 427 B.C.; Thucydides reports it in book three of his History of the …