![]() ![]() So then the Athenian mob voted to execute eight of their top military commanders the very same generals and admirals who had just won the battle and been called heroes, were now being put to death. The Assembly suddenly became furious, crying that the souls of those drowned sailors would wander purgatory for all of eternity because they didn’t have a proper burial. Sparta was on the ropes, and the Assembly cheered when news of their fleet’s victory reached Athens.īut then the Assembly found out that 25 of the 150 ships had been sunk by the Spartans, and that the Athenian crews of those 25 sunken ships had drowned in a storm. And their new armada vanquished the Spartan navy in the Battle of the Arginusae Islands in 406 BC. So the citizens gathered together in their public assembly– essentially a democratic mob of 6,000 people– and voted to build a new, costly fleet of ships. They wanted a decisive victory to end the war once and for all. ![]() ![]() By the late the fifth century BC, after decades of war with its chief rival Sparta, the ancient Greek city-state of Athens was desperate for peace. ![]()
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