Sicilian expedition
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the Sicilian expedition · the expedition to Sicily · Sicily · destruction of the army · expedition · the Sicilian business · the campaign · the voyage · we chose to send an armament to Sicily
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1 expressionThe Sicilian Expedition2 mentions
On the Peace with Sparta (Greek) · Concerning the Team of Horses (Greek)
instead of staying at home as the allies of Syracuse, we chose to send an armament to Sicily.
in the texts
On the Peace with Sparta
Athens' costly military expedition to Sicily, chosen over an offered alliance with Syracuse, resulting in massive losses of ships, money, and lives.
instead of staying at home as the allies of Syracuse, we chose to send an armament to Sicily.
Orations
Athenian military campaign against Sicily, led reluctantly by Nicias and ending in disaster.
And Nicias, the son of Niceratus, because he was trusted by the citizens, though he knew what the expedition to Sicily would be, both from the god and from his own reasoning, was nevertheless compelled to go on the campaign, sick as he was, on account of this trust.
Concerning the Team of Horses
The Athenian military campaign against Sicily that Alcibiades the elder was elected to command before being recalled to face trial.
They did not cease until they had recalled my father from the expedition and had put to death some of his friends and had banished others from the city.
The city was greatly excited by reason of the gravity of the charges, and a meeting of the Assembly was hastily called at which my father so clearly proved that the accusers were lying that the people would have been glad to punish them, and furthermore elected him general for the Sicilian expedition.
On the Peace
The Athenian campaign toward Sicily, criticized as reckless and disastrous.
Nay, they arrived at such a pitch of folly that at a time when they were not masters of their own suburbs they expected to extend their power over Italy and Sicily and Carthage.
in the Decelean War they lost ten thousand heavy armed troops of their own and of their allies, and in Sicily forty thousand men and two hundred and forty ships, and, finally, in the Hellespont two hundred ships.
For they reached such a degree of neglect of their own possessions and of covetousness of the possessions of other states that when the Lacedaemonians had invaded our territory and the fortifications at Decelea had already been built, they manned triremes to send to Sicily and were not ashamed to permit their own country to be cut off and plundered by the enemy while dispatching an expedition agai …
Theages
Military disaster in Sicily about which Socrates claims to have spoken a prior warning.
And moreover, in regard to the Sicilian business, many will tell you what I said about the destruction of the army.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Athenian military campaign voted by the assembly to conquer Sicily, prompted by the Segestan appeal, debated at length by Nicias and Alcibiades.
After this, the preparations began to be made;
THE same winter the Athenians wished to sail again to Sicily, with a larger armament than that under Laches and Eurymedon, and bring it into subjection to them, if they could;
The following summer, as soon as the spring commenced, the ambassadors of the Athenians came from Sicily, and the Segestans with them, bringing sixty talents of uncoined silver, as a month's pay for sixty ships which they were to beg them to send.