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The Sicilian Expedition was an Athenian military expedition to Sicily. The expedition was a risk. Athens swelled a lightweight force of 20 ships into a massive armada. The general, Nicias, was supposed to take a small fleet there, but he asked for a bigger one to show that this expidition would be impossible to accomplish. If something went wrong, Athens would be defenseless. It became a disaster.
The Delian league was formed in 478 B.C. It was an alliance of coastal and Agean city-states against Persians at a time when Greece was threatened by Persia. Its goal was to make Persia pay and to free the Greeks under Persian dominion. It later became the Athenian empire that opposed Spartan allies in the Peloponnesian war. Strength is what the poleis had been seeking when they turned to Athens to form the Delian League.