Today's installment concludes Syracuse Defeats Athens,our selection by Sir Edward S. Creasy.If you have journeyed through all of the

The attention of all Greece was now fixed on Syracuse, and every enemy of Athens felt the importance of the opportunity now offered of checking her

We Athenians sailed to Sicily with the design of subduing, first the Greek cities there, and next those in Italy.Continuing Syracuse Defeats

The fleet consisted of one hundred and thirty-four war-galleys, with a multitude of storeships.Continuing Syracuse Defeats Athens,our selection

A confederacy was formed of five-sixths of the continental Greeks, all animated by anxious jealousy and bitter hatred of Athens.Continuing Syracuse

Athens was now staking the flower of her forces, and the accumulated fruits of seventy years of glory, on one bold throw for the dominion of the