Peace of Nicias
Type | Peace treaty |
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Signed | March 421 BC |
Signatories | Nicias King Pleistoanax |
Parties | Athens Sparta |
Language | Ancient Greek |
The Peace of Nicias was a peace treaty signed between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in March 421 BC that ended the first half of the Peloponnesian War.[1]
In 425 BC, the Spartans had lost the battles of
The negotiations were started by
opposed the treaty.Seventeen representatives from each side swore an oath to uphold the treaty, which was meant to last for fifty years. The Spartan representatives were the kings Pleistoanax and Agis II, Pleistolas, Damagetus, Chionis, Metagenes, Acanthus, Daithus, Ischagoras, Philocharidas, Zeuxidas, Antiphus, Tellis, Alcindas, Empedias, Menas, and Laphilus. The Athenian representatives were Lampon, Isthmonicus, Nicias, Laches, Euthydemus, Procles, Pythodorus, Hagnon, Myrtilus, Thrasycles, Theagenes, Aristocrates, Iolcius, Timocrates, Leon, Lamachus, and Demosthenes. However, Athens's chief goal, the restoration of Amphipolis, was denied when Clearidas obtained from the Spartans a clause in the treaty negating the transfer. The treaty was broken from the start and, after several more failures, was formally abandoned in 414 BC. The Peloponnesian War resumed the second stage.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 5, 13–24.
- ^ Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War, 2004, 197–209.