What made the Athenian success at Pylos and Sphacteria in 425 BCE especially unusual?
Persian sailors captured the whole Athenian Assembly.
More than one hundred Spartan citizens were captured.✓Correct answer
Every Spartan fighter was killed without a prisoner.
Sparta captured Pericles after the Peace of Nicias.
Explanation
Athenian forces compelled more than one hundred Spartan citizens to become prisoners, a striking outcome for warriors expected not to surrender. The report that every Spartan died removes the very feature that made the episode so unusual.