CLASSIC 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Phyle, Decelea, Lunar Eclipse
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Democracy in crisis (justice and the end ) Advises spartans to build permanent fort in attica. Meanwhile in sicily first battle of syracuse. Athenians spend winter416/15 preparing for assault on syracuse. Total number of men about the same but. The syracusans try to stop the walls but fail and the athenians get their wall higher. Ultimately the syracusans win and build their wall the ffarthest. Demosthenes and eurymedon arrive with 73 more ships and 5000 more men. Lunar eclipse (8/28/413) as athenians are preparing to sail. Nicias consults priests: stay for 1 month. They get thrown into the quarries of sicily and all die either from: B/c of this sicilian expedition the whole war is lost. The popular ppl don"t want to treat them how thwy think they should be treated. June 9, 411 bce 14th day of thargelion. Samos" defended itself; athebs was unable to. Moderates led by theramenes favor to expand to 5000.
