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The Peace of Nikias: The Fragile Truce That Failed
In 421 BC, after a decade of brutal warfare, Athens and Sparta signed the Peace of Nikias — a treaty meant to end the Peloponnesian War for fifty years. It lasted less than eight. This episode unpacks the fragile compromise, the hostages, the territorial swaps, and the mutual suspicion that doomed it. We follow the negotiations, the role of Nikias and Pleistoanax, the thorny issue of Skione and Mende, the alliance with Argos that pulled Athens back into conflict, and the fatal unraveling that set the stage for the Sicilian Expedition. How did a peace treaty become a prelude to catastrophe? We…
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