Destruction of the Athenian Fleet - Greatest Military Disaster of Antiquity

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Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of ancient civilizations and Ancient Greece continues with the first episode of our series on the Peloponnesian War, as we see how Athens and Sparta leading the Delian and Peloponnesian Leagues in one of the most brutal wars the ancient Hellenes fought. In the first video we talked about why and how the war started and described the siege of Potidaea in 432 BC ( • How and Why the Pelopo... ). The second episode talked about the siege of Plataea of 429-427 BC ( • Plataea 429-427 BC - P... ), while the third concentrated on the Battle of Pylos of 425 BC ( • Battle of Pylos 425 BC... ). The battle of Amphipolis 422 BC ended the Archidamian War with the Peace of Nicias ( • Battle of Amphipolis 4... ), but this was hardly the end as both the Athens and Sparta were eager to square off again, leading to the battle of Mantinea. We also talked about the famous Melian Dialogue, which is very important for the understanding of the ancient Greek thought ( • Battle of Mantinea 418... ). The lull in the war was followed by the Sicilian Expedition - possibly the greatest military disaster of Antiquity.
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Script: Christos Nicolaou
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00:00 Introductions
01:44 Background and Geopolitical Overview of Sicily
02:18 Athens' Military Intervention in Sicily
03:12 Initial Strategies and Diplomacy
05:21 The First Battle and Initial Successes
07:38 Reinforcements and Siege of Syracuse
09:26 Naval Battles and Reversals of Fortune
11:48 Retreat and Demise
17:56 Reflection and Conclusion
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@kicitorun 9 ай бұрын

@@L17_8i love you, the end!

@georgepatton93 9 ай бұрын

This expedition is the poster child for "THE WORST CASE" scenario, wrong timing, wrong strategy, wrong tactics, miscommunication, etc.

@thatoneguy5856 9 ай бұрын

Plus the general that had the actual plan was MIA due to politics

@noname-bk7bc 9 ай бұрын

I think the post mortem of this is one of the most beautiful things written in a history

@MiguelPerez-zx2wg 9 ай бұрын

Don't worry. Someone will top this off within 2,356 years later.

@Redactedredacted5837 9 ай бұрын

@@MiguelPerez-zx2wg Be prepared for angry Wehraboos.

@johnmatthews2553 9 ай бұрын

The Spartans sending reinforcements to Syracuse really gets me. They did everything in their power to make it difficult for Athens. Corinth helped Syracuse as well..

@user-sc5iv2rp2t 9 ай бұрын

The Syracusans spared only those Athenians that knew verses from the tragedies of Euripedes. Thucidides says that for years veterans would kiss Euripedes hands on the street because he saved them from the quarries.

@olamideolanrewaju4005 9 ай бұрын

Why spare those who knew verses from Euripedes?

@user-sc5iv2rp2t 9 ай бұрын

@@olamideolanrewaju4005 Because he was the superstar poet of the era known to all the Greek world.

@iexist3919 9 ай бұрын

Ah yes, the infamous Sicilian Expedition. Everything that could’ve gone wrong did.

@samuelmargueret9626 9 ай бұрын

The fact that sicily has been so much contested in Europe through the ages is just crazy !! Greeks , Normans , italians , romans , spanish and others .... i Wonder how many people died for sicily !! Love your vidéo as always

@AhmedAshraf-ue6yz 9 ай бұрын

even arabs

@geordiejones5618 9 ай бұрын

Might be the single most strategic island on the planet. Control it, and you will historically control most if not all of the Mediterranean. At least up through WW2. Right now I'd say the Panama/Suez canals and Taiwan are what I'd call the most significant military targets for the 21st century and the US has by far the best foothold on all three with its global navy.

@wilkannen8346 9 ай бұрын

The funny thing is as soon as anyone takes Sicily, they begin ignoring it.

@Liamtheseriousguy 9 ай бұрын

Carthaginians, brits and americans too!

@JRGProjects 9 ай бұрын

Spartan Diplomat: The Athenians will create a United States of Force! Americans: Can we use that name?

@dand7763 9 ай бұрын

European Union TODAY: United States of Europe (under the german rule)

@schroedingersdog7965 9 ай бұрын

14:07 This lunar eclipse (when "Gaia hid Selene from her brother, Helios") took place on the evening of August 28, 413 BCE. The eclipse was total, with the total phase lasting 43 minutes. As seen from Syracuse, the middle (darkest part) of the eclipse occurred at about 11:00 PM. Depending on the weather, another lunar eclipse would have been visible from Syracuse nearly 6 months earlier - on the evening of March 4. I cannot help but wonder what effect - if any - this almost total eclipse had on the Athenian invasion.

@Gronk79 9 ай бұрын

Great comment! Could the ancients, however, even predict a lunar eclipse?

@schroedingersdog7965 9 ай бұрын

@@Gronk79 Ancient Babylonian astronomers certainly predicted lunar eclipses - we have their cuneiform-inscribed baked clay tablets listing accurately predicted eclipses hundreds of years in their future. Eclipses occur in regular cycles (the "saros"), so predicting the dates of future lunar eclipses isn't difficult if you have records of the dates of past eclipses, as the Babylonians did.

@philtkaswahl2124 9 ай бұрын

"Y'know, boys, it occurs to me we might have read that eclipse just a little bit wrong."

@devereuxbirdzell 9 ай бұрын

I find it absolutely incredible that we're able to understand battles fought almost 2500 years ago. It's just wonderful.

@jimmyandersson9938 9 ай бұрын

Athens controlling entire Aegean sea and the coast of Anatolia but sending their army to Sicily and dying is like watching a guy with money enough to be set for life gamble away everything on a slot machine.

@panagiotis7946 8 ай бұрын

e great plan was the unification of the entire Greek world to deal with the Persian danger

@barbiquearea 9 ай бұрын

Alcibiades's father had old connections with the Spartan aristocracy. Alcibiades himself was said to have been breastfed by a Spartan wet nurse in his infancy (Spartan girls were highly sought after as wet nurses). This connection may have made it easy for him to defect to Sparta and ingratiate himself into their society and be accepted and adored by the elites of Sparta.

@circleancopan7748 9 ай бұрын

While most of his time, he served Athens with all his heart. But what Athenians gave to his loyalty in exchange? Suspicion and utter contempt.

@mikkelsieburg89 9 ай бұрын

@@cal2127 This is not even close to be uniqe to democracys

@jimhjortsberg2990 9 ай бұрын

@@circleancopan7748 He seemed to have known that the charges was mostly just a political conspiracy against him anyway. He actually tried to have the trial done prior to leaving which the court refused to do. And the fact that he was convicted in absentia and condemned to death with an entire talent worth of gold offered to whoever managed to kill him might have proved him right....

@voiceofthevoid1477 9 ай бұрын

I have been following you guy from college-my time being a history teacher. This channel is like my new Saturday morning cartoons, amazing work!

@schoolofgrowthhacking 9 ай бұрын

Athens should have begun preparing their exit strategy as soon as enemy reinforcements began to pour in. Waiting 27 days to withdraw was a fatal mistake.

@MelkromisteinWeeb 9 ай бұрын

Alkibiades is one of my favourite historical personalities because he lived one of the most ridiculous political lives. I'd hate his guts when he'd be a politician today, but in retrospective he's a charismatic leader who is actually able to back up his charisma, as he was also a good general which will be noticed a bit later in the war when he keeps Athens alive for a few more years.

@dingusdean1905 9 ай бұрын

He was a mad lad in the purest sense of the term

@user-nz1eu8cz1d 9 ай бұрын

@@dingusdean1905 but very popular with the ladies as we will see in the future.

@mikloshoffer282 9 ай бұрын

I tend to agree on that. Also, I am under the impression that later in his life he had overcome a lot of his earlier character flaws. The fact that his past finally caught up with him when he had actually become a better man, to me gives great depth to his story with an abundance of both glory and tragedy.

@user-nz1eu8cz1d 9 ай бұрын

@@mikloshoffer282 there is a fine historical novel with the title ''My Master Alkiviades''. It's his life viewed by his personnal servant as this aspect of Alkiviades as you described it. Sadly for most of the readers is in greek.

@mikloshoffer282 9 ай бұрын

@@user-nz1eu8cz1d Thank you, I see it in English as well. With a band of mine we did a cycle based on The Rise and Fall of Athens by Plutarch.

@FalseNomen 9 ай бұрын

Learning about this is what made think that maybe the Athenians weren't the 'good guys' in the war. >What do you do when you're a democracy fighting an autocracy breathing down your neck? Launch a surprise invasion against a neutral democracy on the other side of the Greek world, of course.< Everything about this was a mess. Athena surely withdrew her favor in the fiasco that followed.

@starbreeze7249 9 ай бұрын

Athens had its share of good guy moments and bad guy moments depending on the leader. It was a time ot strife, it was hard to be the good guy. What the Greeks came to learn, however, was it was better to be ruled by Athenians than it was by Spartans. Of course in the end it was Thebes and Sparta who were essentially completely wiped out, while Athens continued on

@Jaco059 9 ай бұрын

Makes you question the infallibility of democracy which the modern politician in America does so without question. If the leaders of your democracy don’t have to follow the will of the people then you basically aren’t a democracy anymore. And who holds the leaders accountable the people are supposed to but you can’t fix the problems quick enough and if they don’t care to listen to the people then what’s the point.

@Jaco059 9 ай бұрын

⁠@@starbreeze7249but they lost the war and were basically occupied by Sparta and Thebes for years. The Athenians would never gain the power they had pre 400 bc and were eventually forced into joining Alexander.

@al-muwaffaq341 9 ай бұрын

There was no good guys in this war. Sparta and Athens committed atrocities.

@markcoroneos7811 9 ай бұрын

@@Jaco059it comes down to the break up of the “leagues” following the war and the theban hegemony. Sparta had its back broken after leuctra, losing messenia effectively broke their society. Without the helot slaves, spartans were never able to project power the way they could prior. Hence why they stayed inactive during the rise of macedonia. Athens lost its delian league and suffered for a time, but was still able to capitalise on their economic and naval strength. Their society wasnt dismantled as would happen to sparta. They, along with thebes, we’re constantly checking phillip’s expansionism until he decisively defeated them at chaeronea.

@matthewj6154 9 ай бұрын

The Syracusans were hugh fans of theatre and Athenian plays. Apparently the only way to get out of the quarry was to be able to recite a play in a way that the locals found suitably entertaining.

@davidhughes8357 9 ай бұрын

A really good description of the Epipolae Plateau fortifications particularly the Euralus Fort was in Peter Connelly's excellent Illustrated book Greece and Rome at war. Years ago I lost my extensive library of ancient military history in a house fire and am still working to replace the most important ones.

@luke3807 9 ай бұрын

Quality content as usual. According to Plutarch, Syracuse and a few surrounding cities were founded by Greeks from Corinth.

@davidhughes8357 9 ай бұрын

Many years ago when I first began studying ancient military history I saw a description of the fortifications of the Epipolae Plateau at Syracuse. Have never forgot that and it would be very welcome to see a follow up on it.

@legioabchao14 9 ай бұрын

"...as Gaia hid Selena from her brother, Helios." That was beautiful K&G. Congrats !

@shehansenanayaka3046 9 ай бұрын

Kings and genrals is my fav history channel. Brilliant as alwys. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. Your fan from Sri Lanka ❤️.

@jonbaxter2254 9 ай бұрын

We need a Total War from this period.

@KingsandGenerals 9 ай бұрын

Wrath of Sparta DLC does a good job

@jonbaxter2254 9 ай бұрын

Thanks, will check it out! @@KingsandGenerals

@jozzieokes3422 9 ай бұрын

It always gets better every episode!

@vitorpereira9515 9 ай бұрын

Basically excessive ambition, lack of adequate preparation, ineffective leadership, Sicilian resistance and adverse conditions all contributed to the Athenian defeat. Lack of resources, coordination, and local support, along with resistance from Sicilian cities, made it impossible for Athens to conquer Sicily. This defeat marked the beginning of the decline of Athens.

@user-nl4mm4gd8q 9 ай бұрын

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@kingt0295 9 ай бұрын

You said the same thing twice there lol

@br0k3nman 9 ай бұрын

Sounds like Ruzzia in Ukraine. 😹

@panagiotis7946 8 ай бұрын

the great plan was the unification of the entire Greek world to deal with the Persian danger If Alcibiades had not been hunted by the oligarchs and led the campaign it would have been a complete success Alcibiades was a great strategic mind Nikias did not believe in the campaign and entered into a great adventure

@Mrkabrat 9 ай бұрын

Its even funnier once you consider one of Pericles' advice was "As long as we don't launch ourselves into the conquest of new lands and focus on our naval dominance, war shall go well for us". Guess Alcibiades wanted glory no matter what

@queldron 9 ай бұрын

One of the best episodes ever released by Kings and Generals imo! (and I have seen all videos regarding ancient/medieval history) Also, I can't wait for your video about the Ten Thousand!

@CoreyANeal2000 9 ай бұрын

17:06 I love how they go into how one of the leaders didn't want to kill the othersides, but his side was too angry.

@queldron 9 ай бұрын

@@CoreyANeal2000 Yeah, a chivalry move that didn't "move" the Syracusans.

@theawesomeman9821 9 ай бұрын

HBO should make a historical drama series for the Greek states like it did for Rome.

@joeltochukwu4199 9 ай бұрын

Was thinking about this the other day. We seem to have a lot of movies/series based on ancient Rome than ancient Greece. No idea why. History like the Diadochi wars with its plethora of characters, plots and subplots, betrayals can be made a series with equal standing with GoT.

@theawesomeman9821 9 ай бұрын

@@joeltochukwu4199 I think people are just more aware about Rome because it was an ancient super power

@joeltochukwu4199 9 ай бұрын

@@theawesomeman9821 Yes you are right. But the Greeks were a superpower too. Well, maybe superpower is not the word, but they were very very influential in classical history and antiquity and with so many stories and characters, I'm surprised we don't have much film/series production about them.

@theawesomeman9821 9 ай бұрын

@@joeltochukwu4199 there was that biopic of Alexander the Great played by Collin Feral, 300, and the movie Troy which starred Brad Pit for Greek content.

@roihanfadhil2879 9 ай бұрын

I like when you include phrases about Greek mythology in your video narration on the minute 12:47, 14:10, and 16:04. Maybe the Athenians didn't have the blessing of Hermes and Ares so their expedition had to totally fail!

@user-nl4mm4gd8q 9 ай бұрын

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@user-nl4mm4gd8q 9 ай бұрын

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@unknowguy9642 9 ай бұрын

Yeah i really like that line about Gaia hiding Selene from Helios. It sound just like something the ancient Greek scholar would say😂😂

@christopheradam5816 9 ай бұрын

I see you there, little guy. Tiny little Rome all tucked away, bet he must be amazed at all these big fish swimming around him.

@grapeshott 9 ай бұрын

Alcebiades is a character in Plato's Symposium. Handsome and talented man, but he crushed on the ugly yet intelligent Socrates.

@user-nl4mm4gd8q 9 ай бұрын

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@leeboy26 9 ай бұрын

Well Age Of Empires didn't have it entirely wrong with the incessent wall building.

@joshlesure3196 9 ай бұрын

This channel continues to feed my interest/passion for history with each and every video, so keep it up!

@MarouenAK 9 ай бұрын

Good documentary, i was somehow surprised by the expression : heavely armoured light troops

@user-nz1eu8cz1d 9 ай бұрын

Well done and very descriptive video. Actually Nikias asked from Athens to be relieved of his command and and permission to abandon the campaign.Instead he received reinforcements with Demosthenes. When one of the most heartbreaking moments as described by Thucidides was when during the athenian retreat, the sick and wounded warriors cried and begged their fellow soldiers not to abandon them. Another intersting fact is that some Athenians survived the quarries by reciting verses of Aeschylus and other great poets of Athens.

@Hadrexus 9 ай бұрын

WHY IZ YOU WHISPERIN YA GIT

@user-nz1eu8cz1d 9 ай бұрын

@@Hadrexus

@EiHelveta 9 ай бұрын

Bruh all these walls make Caesars' wall game look weak.

@kendallcribbins415 9 ай бұрын

You guys have the best youtube channels by far! Wizards and warriors is just as awesome!

@robbabcock_ 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing these fantastic videos! ⚔🔥🙌

@KingsandGenerals 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@charlesdeleo4608 9 ай бұрын

As an Italian-American, I love studying this part of the Peloponnesian War, because the Athenians stupidly brought the war to Italy. And this was when Syracuse was at the height of its power, and would continue to rise under Dionysius I, until the rising might of Rome came on the scene 200 years later.

@panagiotis7946 8 ай бұрын

Athens lost the war from the pandemic at the very beginning half the population died or marched as well as the great figure of Pericles of the experienced Athenian crews of the ships, almost 60% died That's where the war was lost

@deangajraj 9 ай бұрын

The Peloponnesian War, an ever-present reminder of the pitfalls of grand ambitions and hubris, is entrenched in the annals of history. Allured by his own skillful tactics and charismatic charm, Alcibiades led the Athenian fleet into the Sicilian Expedition, embodying the Icarus myth. Herein lies a reverberating warning: empires blinded by their power all too often ignore telling portents. Such was the case for Athens in Sicily - similar to that of Achaemenids in Greece or Soviets in Afghanistan - driven onward despite history's subtle murmurs. Through Syracuse's heroes, Sparta's adversaries, and Alcibiades' own risings and fallings; we read of imperiousness, betrayal and ultimately the downfall of greatness itself. Thucydides repeatedly reminded us that heeding not these warnings invites similar fates: what has been will come around again "not in exactly the same form but following predictable lines."

@panagiotis7946 8 ай бұрын

athena did not have an empire what athena tried was the union of the greek cities for better protection of the greek world from the persian danger

@damienm 9 ай бұрын

This Peloponnesian War is one of your best series!

@kmystak 9 ай бұрын

At last, I was waiting for this for so long!

@CliffCardi 9 ай бұрын

Delian League: “We suffered the greatest defeat in Antiquity.” Gaius Terentius Varro: “Hold my wine.”

@Harrier_DuBois 9 ай бұрын

Excellent video!

@garthrogers2269 9 ай бұрын

'There is nothing so terrible as a battle lost, except a battle won.' - Sir Arthur Wellesly.

@Aginor88 9 ай бұрын

Interesting as per usual from this channel.

@-RONNIE 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the quality information in this video

@KingsandGenerals 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@-RONNIE 9 ай бұрын

@@KingsandGenerals of course

@PrimeroVorian1 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@MM22966 9 ай бұрын

I never thought about it before, but it is a strange twist of fate that the exact same locale that was the turning point of the Peloponnesian Wars was the same place the Punic Wars started. One ended Athens, the other Carthage.

@RobertaPeck 6 ай бұрын

Your aerial visuals during the lecture masterly inable understanding !!!!

@beachboy0505 9 ай бұрын

Excellent video Watched it 3x A great story every expeditionary force commanders should know. Keep your lines of retreat open. Have an exit policy, control the politics (1940, Dunkirk)

@BaldricOutremer 9 ай бұрын

The Sicilian expedition really illustrates the downsides of having a strong reputation as an imperialistic power. Plenty of Sicilian cities disliked Syracuse and might have allied with Athens if it hadn't been so obvious that Athens meant to conquer the entire island. On a different subject, I think we can safely say that the dumbest man in the entire story was the soothsayer who thought it was a good idea to have an army desperate to retreat just sit on its hands for an entire month.

@dennisgichohi5392 9 ай бұрын

There is a saying in swahili that says.....mtaka yote hukosa yote.Athenians were a perfect example

@Jesse_Dawg 9 ай бұрын

Please more videos. I love these

@michaelsinger4638 9 ай бұрын

This was a case of “everything that could go wrong, DID go wrong.” What a clusterf***.

@jimweights8908 9 ай бұрын

Fascinating the Syracuse flag is same as Isle of Man. And it’s not a coincidence but direct connection

@denniscleary7580 9 ай бұрын

This was a pleasant surprise this morning, now I can have a good 👍

@LocalHeretic-ck1kd 9 ай бұрын

Many years ago I read a book by Peter Green about Alcibiades and the Sicilian Expedition. It was a good book that taught me a lot.

@richardstone5552 9 ай бұрын

Thank you

@zoeking8320 9 ай бұрын

You should cover xenophon and the March of the ten thousand

@franciscovelasco5422 9 ай бұрын

It’s on patreon

@1987MartinT 9 ай бұрын

I, personally, consider the Sicilian Expedition to have been as big of a disaster for Athens as the battle of Stalingrad was for Nazi Germany, if not a bigger disaster.

@generalhorse493 9 ай бұрын

I think the Nazis made an equally big disaster, but arguably that was Barbarossa, not Stalingrad. Stalingrad was a continuation of the mess that the Nazis got themselves into, Barbarossa was a unmitigated disaster that ended their trade deal with the Soviets that was giving them much needed oil, opened a second front requiring them to dedicate most of their resources where they hadn't to previously, they did almost no intelligence gathering or strategic planning beforehand, assumed their enemy would just collapse in on themselves in several weeks, they ignored their logistics despite going into the biggest land empire in human history, assumed they would capture the railway system intact, and had fewer planes ready for the invasion than at the start of the Battle of Britain, and in 4 months of combat all they had to show for it was losing 75-80% of their panzers and 1 million men, more men than America and Britain lost during the entire war.

@Insectoid_ 9 ай бұрын

Awesome 👏

@matts7125 9 ай бұрын

Wow that’s crazy to imagine athens controlling Sicily and Carthage and eventually clashing with rome

@ShaneHasPlayz 9 ай бұрын

Lol we get early access for a video we alr have access to in members only vids

@user-nl4mm4gd8q 9 ай бұрын

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@321AlterSchwede 9 ай бұрын

I see a similarity to the war of germany against russia in second world war. In both cases, a land choose to wage another war to get ressources instead of finishing their arch enemy first. In both cases probably the countrys could not win their first war - germany could not invade england and athen could not invade sparta - so they tried a gamble in another war - theater to gain more ressources for the first war.

@roysobak1421 9 ай бұрын

9:21 Heavily armored light troops. Also known as bipolar army.

@talebmalainine 9 ай бұрын

Mad Punic wars is exclusive for members and it was me who asked 😢

@spear-slayer3159 9 ай бұрын

Imagine being in the last trireme out of Syracuse listening to "Fortunate Son"

@LuckyLonewolf 9 ай бұрын

Shout out to my Sicilian Vikings ~ Y Haplogroup I1

@Squall17x 8 ай бұрын

"I said, you wouldn't have had much fun In Sicily, mr. Alcibiades"

@kennethwebber8159 9 ай бұрын

I still think they need to make a movie on Alcibiades' life. Maybe get Armando Iannucci to direct it.

@adrianrafaelmagana804 9 ай бұрын

Will there ever be a 1st Punic War series or a serious on the Punic Sicilian wars with this level of detail?

@willfungusman8666 9 ай бұрын

When will the HBO version come out

@BigBossXCV 9 ай бұрын

With every character black and gay?

@willfungusman8666 9 ай бұрын

@@BigBossXCV Jo every character is trans with 3 b holes

@dsspryg 9 ай бұрын

I have subscribed to this channel since the beginning. but this channel has changed to prioritize membership. I try to support this channel as much as I can by viewing and not skipping ads, but that doesn't mean anything. When the pacific war series was no longer free it made me a little disappointed, and realized that "you don't support a channel if you don't pay", "you don't support a channel if you are poor". But that's how things are now, thank you for providing information about history so far.

@KingsandGenerals 9 ай бұрын

We never said anything like that. The goal is to keep the production going. Everyone still gets at least 3 free videos per week.

@JamesYork-jy2tl 9 ай бұрын

@@KingsandGenerals the thing is it’s early access tell your subs that they think they never gonna watch them

@pauloboyle477 9 ай бұрын

I am just so confused as to why both sides would leave the harbor that open!! How could both sides move that freely thru there

@tomriley5790 9 ай бұрын

HAve to feel sorry for Nikius, he really didn't deserve that.

@faenethlorhalien 9 ай бұрын

Whod've'thunk that ancient Sicily would have a Japanese sword. Katana wtf.

@masterofmuppets357 Ай бұрын

I think Fortnite took some inspiration from the constant walls being built to block other walls from being built.

@constantinexii8182 9 ай бұрын

So there were about 80.000 Greeks fighting in Sicily 😭

@zodd0001 9 ай бұрын

Syracusan celebrated with an opera invented for the occasion: " Etnee ", but unfortunately it has been lost.

@hoofie7371 9 ай бұрын

How they didn't name that expedition "The Walling Contest" is beyond me.

@pilomalik9696 8 ай бұрын

I wrote a screenplay on Alcibiades

@maddogbasil 9 ай бұрын

*"Yo K&G"* 👋👋 *Can We Get A Video On The Cushites Of the Horn of Africa* Its truly an ancient and rivh historical region From the Land of Punt, to macrobia to axumites and Would definitely live to see a more in depth description of the horn of africa

@mauriceetal1426 9 ай бұрын

Is the horn the bottom or top?

@maddogbasil 9 ай бұрын

@@mauriceetal1426its in the north east Next door to arabia

@paladinbob1236 9 ай бұрын

alcibiades was a little two faced in his deals with boths sides..the supreme politican perhaps? [winks] but loving the series :)

@theadventuresofnekosnowbal7285 9 ай бұрын

Wise words by Herodotus of Halicarnasus at the very end. Millenia have passed and technology has advanced, but human nature has not changed all that much.

@nomooon 9 ай бұрын

14:14 this is why you bring the best soothsayers, not some half assed soothsayer wannabes who bullshits you.... could've ran away under the cover of eclipse....

@julianmarsh8384 7 ай бұрын

By this time in the war, the Athenians had lost their minds. Sending out three generals each with their own idea of how to engage the enemy, was a bad sign. Especially since one of the three did not even want to be there and another, not trusted by the government. Upon arriving and finding that the promised money did not exist, should have been enough to get the Athenians to reconsider and leave. The Athenian general's letter of gloom and doom sent to Athens, should have been enough for Athens to order everyone off of the island. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

@abhishek_sikarwar 9 ай бұрын

RELEASE THE PUNIC WARS SERIES TO NON MEMBERS PLEASE🙏

@JBRAI22 9 ай бұрын

Quick animation mistake at 7:11, someone’s foot is sticking through their shield

@pilomalik9696 8 ай бұрын

Let me send you guys my screenplay on Alcibiades. The first season is already written.

@mercenarygundam1487 9 ай бұрын

Murphy's law: military expedition edition

@jramseier 9 ай бұрын

"while his counterpart ATHENAgorus considered fear of the ATHENians to be unsound" SUS

@pimppvevo9225 9 ай бұрын

@kingsandGeneral we need some new ottoman videos and Mongol videos For example the Ottoman 2nd siege of vienna up till now that haven't been cover on a video and how the Ottoman empire took over Crimea

@user-nl4mm4gd8q 9 ай бұрын

Do you want to talk about kurdistan?☺️

@cagdas135 9 ай бұрын

@@user-nl4mm4gd8q Do you want to talk about salad?

@Moribus_Artibus 9 ай бұрын

O wisdom-loving Athens! Why let clumsy Alcibiades fool you!? 🦉

@curranlakhani 9 ай бұрын

The similarities between this battle and the Battle of Dyracchium are too obvious to ignore.....

@oneillconnorg 9 ай бұрын

What Rome 2 mods were used?

@al-muwaffaq341 9 ай бұрын

Lamachus definitely had the best plan of attack.

@napoleonibonaparte7198 9 ай бұрын

Ancient military strats: Walling. AoE2 was accurate all this time...

@georgie064 9 ай бұрын

Wait i dont get it, according to the numbers given, athens had around 15 thousand men. The casualties however, are at over 40.000. ks this counting sailors too or is it simply reinforcements that weren't mentioned?