Article,
The Egyptian Expedition and the Chronology of the Decade 460-450 B.C.
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, (1936)
DOI: 10.2307/283240
Abstract
Thucydides' account of the Egyptian Expedition has usually been taken to mean that Athens and her allies lost 200 + 50 ships and something like 40,000 men about the middle of the decade 460-450. In this paper it is argued that most of the 200 ships returned via Phoenicia, enabling Athens to fight Tanagra with adequate forces; that only 40 (Ktesias' figure) were left to be destroyed in Egypt; and that late in 453 is a better date for the final disaster than the usually adopted 454, and also provides a better explanation for the removal of the treasury from Delos.
