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unusual facts about Sicilian Expedition


Sicilian Expedition

He wanted to reduce the number of generals from fifteen to three; Hermocrates, Heraclides, and Sicanus were elected and Hermocrates sent for help from Corinth and Sparta.


Asinaro

The river was known as the Assinaros in antiquity; in 413 BC it was the site of the final crushing defeat of the retreating Athenian expeditionary force which had been besieging Syracuse.

Timeline of ancient Greece

415 Hermai statues are mutilated in Athens, Alcibiades accused, asks for inquiry, told to set sail for battle (Sicilian Expedition), is condemned to death in absentia, he defects to Sparta.


see also

Athenagoras

Athenagoras of Syracuse, a statesman and military leader in Syracuse during the Sicilian Expedition (415 BC-413 BC)

The Dying of Today

The play is loosely based on Thucydides' account of the destruction of the Sicilian expedition of 413BC, which saw the Athenian army and navy suffering a heavy defeat.