The Classical Quarterly

Table of Contents - 1911 - Volume 5, Issue 02  

Research Article

The Etruscans and the Sicilian Expedition of 414-413 B.C.

M. O. B. Casparia1

a1 London University

It has usually been held, on the strength of several passages in Thucydides, that the Athenian army which was besieging Syracuse in 414–413 b.c. contained a contingent of Etruscans desirous of retaliating upon the Syracusans for losses inflicted upon them in past days—e.g., in 474 at Cumae and in 453 at Elba.