Athens at War |
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action Aegean Alcibiades Alcidas allies already Amphipolis Archidamus arrived Athenian alliance Athenian army Athenian fleet Athens Athens and Sparta attack Attica battle began blockade Boeotia Brasidas captured citizens Cleon coast command Corcyra Corcyraean Corinth Corinthians counter-wall Decelea defeat Delium democracy democrats Demosthenes empire enemy Epipolae Eurymedon everything expedition fact favour fear fighting force fortifications fought garrison give Greece Greek cities Gylippus happened harbour honour hope hoplites hundred infantry invaded Attica invasion island killed Lamachus land lived lost Meanwhile Megara Melians Melos Mytilene Naupactus naval navy Nicias numbers oligarchs once Paches party peace Peloponnese Pericles Persians Piraeus plague Plataea position Potidaea put to death Pylos revolt sail sent shore Sicily side sixty ships soon Spartan alliance suffered surrender Syracusan cavalry Syracusans Syracuse Thebans Thebes Themistocles things thought Thucydides took treaty trireme troops victory wall wanted whole yourselves