103: Defeat of the Athenian Navy
About this episode
The episode discusses the Athenian Navy's defeat in Sicily and the strategic decisions made by Nicias and the Athenian Assembly.
Athens is the greatest naval power in Greece, yet in Sicily it starts to feel helpless. We pick up the story at the moment Nicias sends a careful, politically protective message home and the Athenian Assembly hears what it wants to hear: send more ships, send more men, and force victory. That decision to double down shapes everything that follows, because it gives Syracuse and Gylippus time to do what Athens assumes no one can do, learn fast enough to beat the Athenian navy. We walk through ...
More episodes of Casting Through Ancient Greece
- Teaser: Themistocles Pt 3 (Patreon)
- 104: The Disaster Of Sicily
- Teaser: Themistocles Pt 1 (Patreon)
- 102: Athens Doubles Down
- Teaser: Dual Hegemony? (Patreon)
- 101: The Siege of Syracuse
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