Nicias

Nicias was an Athenian politician and general during the Peloponnesian War. He negotiated the Peace of Nicias but later became one of the commanders of the Sicilian Expedition, where hesitation, disease and military defeat ended in his capture and execution.

Steven Pressfield’s Tides of War places Nicias within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, exploration, travel and cultural encounter, and court politics and dynastic power.

In non-fiction, Nicias is discussed in Plutarch’s The Rise and Fall of Athens. In Plutarch’s The Rise and Fall of Athens, this Plutarch collection gives biographical sources for Athens from legendary Theseus through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades and Lysander.