Someone in Athens destroyed the Hermai. General Alcibiades offered to be put on trial for the destruction for the desecration on the penalty of death if he was found guilty, but the assembly refused and wait to gather evidence (or... maybe coordinate stories. who knows) and called him to trial months later. He fled, allegedly because while he was innocent of this, an investigation into his finances might find irregularities.
Suppose they took up his offer and put him on trial the next day and delay the Sicilian Expedition until the results of the trial finish. What would be the outcomes on the war? Even his harshest ancient Greek critics who wrote after 400 BC thought he was innocent, so perhaps he was factually innocent.
The Spartans were likely to send their 1,000-3,000 hoplites to aid Syracuse even without post-defection Alcibiades telling them too. So any differences in a Sicilian campaign would come from only a few sources. One, Alcibiades's ability as a better tactician than Nicias (I don't think so, but this isn't my specialty). Another effect is that the Spartans wouldn't attack a critical place in Attica. A third source was that OTL Alcibiades told the Spartans how to slip a false rumor into the Athenian camp, which in OTL was used to make the Athenians that they couldn't escape by land after the failed siege and so they didn't try to flee until it was too late (although with their fleet mauled I don't think they would last long anyways...)
Suppose they took up his offer and put him on trial the next day and delay the Sicilian Expedition until the results of the trial finish. What would be the outcomes on the war? Even his harshest ancient Greek critics who wrote after 400 BC thought he was innocent, so perhaps he was factually innocent.
The Spartans were likely to send their 1,000-3,000 hoplites to aid Syracuse even without post-defection Alcibiades telling them too. So any differences in a Sicilian campaign would come from only a few sources. One, Alcibiades's ability as a better tactician than Nicias (I don't think so, but this isn't my specialty). Another effect is that the Spartans wouldn't attack a critical place in Attica. A third source was that OTL Alcibiades told the Spartans how to slip a false rumor into the Athenian camp, which in OTL was used to make the Athenians that they couldn't escape by land after the failed siege and so they didn't try to flee until it was too late (although with their fleet mauled I don't think they would last long anyways...)