The Melians had been stabbing Athenian soldiers in the back, poisoning them, filling them full of arrows from ambush.

Eteonicus got away and 1000 - 5000 shipwrecked Athenian soldiers drowned leading to a political firestorm in Athens.

The nearest shallow bay was a day's sailing and four days' march distant, and by the time the Athenian soldiers had come ashore the battle would be over.

The Athenian soldiers also fought bravely, defending the site.

When Phocion decided to attack them, the Athenian soldiers had already rebelled against his command as strategos.

Most of the surviving Athenian soldiers were sent to work as slave laborers in the Sicilian quarries, which were death traps.

Aristides was an Athenian soldier and statesman.

He is not to be confused with the earlier and more famous Athenian soldier and historian, Xenophon.

With the support of these men and the Athenian soldiers in general, the Samian democrats were able to defeat the conspirators when they attempted to seize power.

After several months of siege, little progress in retaking the city had been made, and the Athenian soldiers became somewhat discontent.