This second illustration shows what can happen when a ruse, like Potemkin’s Village, is uncovered. Catherine’s eyes are popping out and Grigori looks horrified (drawing by S. Signorino).
For the Athenians who had recently arrived in Sicily, the discovery that there was no money in Segesta and that the Doric temple was little more than a lure to get them to Sicily must have been hard to swallow. News about the ruse must have reached Athens quickly and within a few days an Athenian state trireme showed up In Rhegium with orders to bring Alcibiades back to Athens to stand trial for his crimes. His bail had been revoked and now he had even more hijinks to answer for.