[lit-ideas] Re: Anzio and the meaning of war

Lawrence wrote


That was one of the many dumb things that happened.  Alcibiades led the
expedition but allowed his troops to do some irreligious things to some of
the statures on Sicily; so the Athenians ordered Alcibiades to come home to
Athens in order to be executed.
Alcibiades and his followers were accused of the mutilation of the herms (hermae), representations of the god Hermes, that were set around Athens. Shortly after the Athenian fleet reached Sicily, he was recalled 
to face trial. As far as I know no statues were mutilated on Sicily.

Robert Paul
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