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Diocles of Syracuse
Diocles of Syracuse ((ギリシア語:Διοκλῆς)) was a legislator, orator, and political and military leader in the Greek city-state of Syracuse toward the end of the 5th century BC. Only a few years of his life have an historical account, from 413 to 408 BC.
==Orator==
The historian Diodorus Siculus presents Diocles as a famous and respected orator, when he proposed, on the day following the victory over the Athenians in 413 BC, a punishment of the greatest severity against the vanquished: execution of Demosthenes and Nicias, the two Athenian generals, condemnation to slavery in the stone quarries for the Athenian soldiers,〔Which was equivalent to death in a short time, for according to Diodorus, with the exception of some clemencies, "the whole remainder were poorly maintained and mistreated in irons and in the works, there perished miserably" (Diod. Sic., Book XIII, chapter X)〕 and the fate of being sold into slavery for the soldiers of the allies of Athens. Reinforced by the speech of Gylippus, that emphasized that a fate so cruel was intended for the Syracusans in case of Athenian victory, the suggestion was adopted against the opinion of those favoring clemency backed by the strategist Hermocrates.〔Diod. Sic. Book XIII, chapter VIII〕 (According to Plutarch and Thucydides, Gylippus wanted to take the two Athenian generals back to Sparta as proof of his own military success.)
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