| Mani Tradition (929 words) |
 | It was undeniably violent but so was life elsewhere on the Peloponnese, especially for those who resisted Turkish domination, as Kolokotronis illustrates in his autobiography when he gives examples of the consequences of being captured alive by the Turks during his time as a Klepht. |
| "Old Gianni Kolokotrones was killed at Androusa (Messinia) - his hands and feet were cut off, and he was then hung." The same fate awaited "the old father of Panagioras" who was eighty years old. |
| He was captured alive after a stalwart defence of his tower at Kastanitsa - "The hands and feet, however, of the aged warrior were amputated, and he himself was afterwards hung." |
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