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The massive Athenian invasion of Sicily in the midst of the Peloponnesian War Seems like hubris to modern readers, but did the Athenian Assembly, without our hindsight, have reason to think it a rational, strategically-sound move?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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