Athenian Record of Confiscation of Property in 414/3

A fragment of the record of the sale of property confiscated from those who profaned the Mysteries and mutilated the Herms. 414/3 B.C. This was a massive scandal that occured on the eve of Athens' Sicilian expedition. At least in hindsight and perhaps at the time, this was seen as a bad omen for the expedition's outcome, which did end in disaster for Athens. Among those implicated in the scandal were Critias, the Socratic philosopher and one of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens during the 405-404 democratic collapse, and the Athenian populist demogogue Alkibiades, himself a strong proponent of the aforementioned expedition.