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25. First
Actions in Sicily
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Summer 415
First
Year of the Expedition
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1. Arrival at
Rhegium
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- The Athenian fleet arrives at
Rhegium,
but Rhegium and the other cities of Magna Gracia maintain
neutrality.
- They provide water and
anchorage, but close their gates and
markets.
- Rhegium provides a market
outside the city walls, and the Athenian forces encamp at
the shrine of
Artemis.
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2. The Athenian generals
sail:
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- first to
Egesta,
where the stratagem is revealed;
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- then to
Naxos,
where they are received;
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- then to
Catana,
where they are received after the expulsion of the
pro-Syracusan party;
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- then to
Camarina,
where the Athenians are disappointed in their
expectations of being admitted;
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- then back to
Catana,
to establish their winter quarters.
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3. At this point the
Salaminia
arrives from Athens for Alcibiades.
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- Here is where JACT Sections
18-22 reading begins.
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- In Thucydides, this is where
the digression on tyranny occurs.
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