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The Peace of Callias: Athens' Forgotten Treaty with Persia
What happened when Athens and Persia decided to stop fighting? In the mid-5th century BCE, after decades of war that stretched from the Ionian coast to the Nile Delta, the Athenian statesman Callias negotiated a groundbreaking peace with the Great King Artaxerxes I. The so-called Peace of Callias is one of the most controversial documents in Greek history — we don't even have the original text, only later references by historians like Isocrates, Diodorus Siculus, and Plutarch. Some scholars argue it never happened. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the evidence for and against the…
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