Sicilian Campaign

In the Peloponnesian war the Sicilian Campaign was an unmitigated disaster for the Athenian forces.

As Thucydides recounts wryly in his History of the Peloponnesian War, the generals leading the campaign had scant knowledge of Sicily, or of its population, and thus the forces marshaled for its conquering were woefully inadequate.

Upon their return from the fiasco that was the Sicilian Campaign, rumours spread that the captains of the returning warships had given orders to not rescue drowning warriors. The captains in turn accused the genarals to deflect blame from themselves.

A trial for treason was held, and the generals were condemned to death, despite the fact that Socrates refused to uphold the procedures legality even when threatened he would be judged to death like the generals.

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