A "funeral oration" given for soldiers killed in this war was given by Pericles.
Six of eight generals were executed by one side in this war for failing to rescue drowning sailors after one battle. During this war, one city was devastated by a plague made worse by the confinement of the Long Walls, which connected that city to its port. An immediate cause of this war was the imposition of sanctions on the city of Megara. This war was interrupted by a peace treaty named for Nicias, a general who was killed on a disastrous expedition to capture the city of Syracuse. A "funeral oration" given for soldiers killed in this war was given by Pericles. Thucydides wrote a history of—for 10 points—what war between alliances of Greek city-states led by Athens and Sparta?
Six of eight generals were executed by one side in this war for failing to rescue drowning sailors after one battle.
Peloponnesian War