With the Speeches of the Peloponnesian War Series over, I give a short update on what to expect moving forward. While the next series is being researched and produced, I will keep posting on the new…
In the harbour at Syracuse, Nicias tries to save an army that is already lost.It is 413 BC. The Sicilian Expedition, once the proudest undertaking of the Athenian empire, lies in ruins before the…
In 413 BC, the greatest navy Greece had ever built found itself trapped in a harbor in Sicily the exit sealed by a wall of enemy ships, the camp starving, the sea that built Athens' empire turned into…
Exiled, condemned, and hunted by his own city, Alcibiades did the unthinkable: he walked into the assembly of Sparta, Athens' deadliest enemy, and told them exactly how to win the war. It should have…
In 415 BC, Athens was about to make the most dangerous decision in its history and one man stood up to stop it. Nicias was everything Alcibiades was not: cautious, honest, deeply experienced, and…
In 415 BC, Athens debated the most ambitious gamble in its history: a vast expedition to conquer Sicily. Standing against it was caution itself. Standing for it was the most dazzling, dangerous man of…
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."416 BC. Athens sends envoys to the neutral island of Melos with an ultimatum: surrender or die. What follows is one of history's most…
In 427 BC, Athens voted to massacre the entire population of Mytilene, and then voted again. This is the story of that second vote, and what is meant.The Mytilenean Debate is one of the most important…
Pericles is dead and after him a more sinister politician fills the vacuum.428 BC. Three years of plague. Three years of Spartan soldiers burning the countryside. Then news arrived: Mytilene, Athens'…
The plague had come.Athens was already crowded beyond anything it had been built to sustain thousands of refugees from the Attic countryside packed behind the walls. Into that compression came a…
