Deed — 2 authors face each other below

the Sicilian expedition

kind: expedition · 415-413 BCE — the editor’s frame · 10 mentions across 10 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

Athens' armada against Syracuse, from the splendor of the sailing to the stone quarries. The affair of the Herms rides its departure; the final defeat and the deaths of Nicias and Demosthenes close it.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

How the generals died: Plutarch reports that Timaeus 'denies that Demosthenes and Nicias were put to death by the orders of the Syracusans, as Philistus and Thucydides state' — naming his sources against each other, with Thucydides on the served shelf to answer. The expedition's launch splendor (Thuc. 6.31) and Thucydides' own retrospective blame (2.65) frame the catastrophe from both ends.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 415–413 BCE on the editor’s table of years .

· 415–413 BCE — date secure ·

Sailed 415, destroyed at the Assinarus 413; Thucydides' annalistic frame carries the years.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · 2 accounts

17–23 the principal narrative The expedition's author: the longing for Sicily, the recall, the defection.

On Sicily the Athenians had cast longing eyes even while Pericles was living Plut. Alcibiades 17

he was presently summoned home by the Athenians to stand his tria Plut. Alcibiades 20

Alcibiades · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

12–29 the principal narrative The expedition through its reluctant commander, to the Asinarus and the quarries.

undertake an expedition against Sicily, opposed the measure, only to be defeated by the ambitious purposes of Alcibiades Plut. Nicias 12

There some of his men were crowded along by the enemy and thrust into the stream Plut. Nicias 27

Timaeus denies that Demosthenes and Nicias were put to death by the orders of the Syracusans, as Philistus and Thucydides state Plut. Nicias 28

Nicias 28 stages Timaeus against Philistus and Thucydides on the generals' deaths. Nicias · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Thucydides · 2 accounts

6.30–7.87 the principal narrative The full tragedy: departure, siege, sea-fights, retreat, quarries.

although the strength of the armament, and the profuse provision which they remarked in every department, was a sight that could not but comfort them Thuc. 6.31

For this was by far the greatest reverse that ever befell an Hellenic army. Thuc. 7.75

but Nicias and Demosthenes were butchered, against the will of Gylippus Thuc. 7.86

The prisoners in the quarries were at first hardly treated by the Syracusans. Thuc. 7.87

History of the Peloponnesian War · Richard Crawley, 1874

2.65 looking back Thucydides' own verdict: the fault lay in the senders, not the plan.

though this failed not so much through a miscalculation of the power of those against whom it was sent, as through a fault in the senders Thuc. 2.65

History of the Peloponnesian War · Richard Crawley, 1874

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Nicias — 6 episodes shared Demosthenes — 4 episodes shared Alcibiades — 3 episodes shared Gylippus — 3 episodes shared Pericles — 3 episodes shared Demosthenes the general — 2 episodes shared Cyrus — a candidate entry Eurycles — a candidate entry Hagnon — a candidate entry Heracles — 1 episode shared

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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