# Athens besieges Potidaea as a Corinthian-colonial revolt

Date: 432

## The fact

From 432 BCE Athens besieged Potidaea, a Corinthian colony in its alliance-network. The dated siege is not the Corcyra alliance and not the 429 plague death. [Pericles](/people/pericles)’s documented role is: Athenian forces besieged Potidaea after it revolted with Corinthian help. Pericles’ city sent the siege; unnamed soldiers starved a town; he did not uniquely invent siege. Do not twin this with Corcyra 433. A Chalcidic siege is not an Ionian-sea alliance. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Pericles's documented role is: Athenian forces besieged Potidaea after it revolted with Corinthian help. Pericles’ city sent the siege; unnamed soldiers starved a town; he did not uniquely invent siege.

## Context

Tribute, a Corinthian garrison, and unnamed starved townspeople already sit in Thucydides. A siege is not unique authorship of every later Chalcidic war. Sharing with the demos is required. Named others on the file: Unnamed Athenian soldiers, Potidaean townspeople, and Corinthian helpers share the siege. The public setting is the file around -0432-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Athens besieges Potidaea as a Corinthian-colonial revolt. The setting of Athens besieges Potidaea as a Corinthian-colonial revolt is the public file around -0432-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with Corcyra 433. A Chalcidic siege is not an Ionian-sea alliance. Mixed effects of Athens besieges Potidaea as a Corinthian-colonial revolt are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and Thucydides independently date the Potidaea siege as a 432 instrument. Official: Britannica — Pericles, Potidaea (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Perseus — Thucydides, Potidaea (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0200; Perseus Digital Library). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Pericles, Potidaea (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Perseus — Thucydides, Potidaea (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0200; Perseus Digital Library).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Pericles, Potidaea (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening humanitarian-access path: a colonial-revolt siege. Complex shared demos war. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated siege is a completed killing-and-hunger heading on the road into the Peloponnesian War. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Potidaea siege from 432. Not established: that Corcyra is this same town. Established: a sourced public record of Athens besieges Potidaea as a Corinthian-colonial revolt under -0432-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Athens besieges Potidaea as a Corinthian-colonial revolt under -0432-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Athens besieges Potidaea as a Corinthian-colonial revolt. Naming Pericles does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0432-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Pericles: https://factrail.ai/people/pericles

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0200
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pericles-Athenian-statesman

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/per-potidaea-432