Cleon and Brasidas fall at Amphipolis
422 BCE · Event
The war's two fiercest advocates — the Athenian demagogue and the one Spartan general with fire in him — die in the same battle in Thrace. With both war parties beheaded, the exhausted cities make peace within the year. Thucydides, the failed Athenian commander at Amphipolis, writes the war's history in the exile the defeat earned him.
On these timelines: The Peloponnesian War, Ancient Greece, Master
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