• Background
    • Athens and Sicily
    • State of the War
  • Prelude
    • Appeal from Segesta
    • Debate at Athens
    • Destruction of the Herms
    • Three generals, three strategies
  • Phase 1: Let's all sail around and have jolly adventures
    • Preparation, departure, recall of Alcibiades
    • The diplomatic strategy fails
    • First assault on Syracuse
  • Phase 2: The siege (Athens ascendant)
    • Arrival of the Athenians (first battle)
    • Battle of the walls
    • Nicias waffles
  • Phase 3: The siege (turning tide)
    • Gylippus and renewed hope in Syracuse
    • The breakout
    • Demosthenes arrives with reinforcements
    • Night on Epipolae
  • Phase 4: The Athenian disaster
    • Final breakout
    • Retreat and surrender
  • Aftermath
    • Fate of the army
    • Ramifications on Sicily
    • Impact on Athens
    • War resumes in Attica and Ionia