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siege of Syracuse
(redirected from Sicilian Expedition)

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Noun1.siege of Syracuse - the Roman siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC) was eventually won by the Romans who sacked the city (killing Archimedes)
Syracuse
Sicilia, Sicily - the largest island in the Mediterranean
2.siege of Syracuse - the Athenian siege of Syracuse (415-413 BC) was eventually won by Syracuse
Syracuse
Sicilia, Sicily - the largest island in the Mediterranean
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The chapters focus on the variety of military experience during the war: ravaging of the land ("fire"), the Athenian epidemic ("disease"), political coups and unconventional fighting ("terror"), infantry battle ("armor"), sieges ("walls"), Athens' disastrous Sicilian expedition ("horses" because of the Sicilians' decisive superiority in cavalry), and the war at sea ("ships").
A war without heroes by Strauss, Barry / New Criterion
Eliot on Tennyson's In Memoriam When Alcibiades defected from Athens to Sparta at the height of the Sicilian Expedition, one of the things that made his treachery so effective was that he knew the Athenian military strategy intimately from within.
Little god, big Wilson by Kimball, Roger / New Criterion
 
 
 
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