The defeat of this city's invasion force at Syracuse in 413 B.C. was the beginning of its end & the start of Sparta's rise
... and a devastating defeat in Sicily by Syracuse in 413 BCE, Athens drained of... [DOC] [TLE] Second or Great Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC [PAR] Aug 10, 2011 ... Thucydides was writing soon after the end of the wars, but sadly his great work 
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