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>the sicilian expedition

>putting on trial the man who engineered the campaign before it even started
>putting in charge a man that did not want to go to war
>allowing the captive general escape to your enemy and reveal your greatest weakness
>postponing a retreat for a month once all is lost because the soothsayers claim a recent eclipse is a good omen
>giving the enemy enough time to construct a wall trapping your forces
>having superior numbers but having a force "so utterly overcome by their defeat as no longer to believe in the possibility of success"

>> No.8892060

Why didn't you mention how they all got sold into slavery after being captured?

>> No.8892081

>>8890859

>Thucydides
>History

>> No.8893620

>>8892081
Are you implying Thucydides isn't the basis of all academic history?

>> No.8893662

>>8892060
Because this has happened every time after some group of people was captured, in history

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>>8892060

Only the ones who could recite poetry. The rest died of thirst or exposure. They had them all penned into an old quarry and the young Syracusan women came to laugh at the Athenians begging for water.

I can't imagine a more r9k death