Peace of Nicias
421 BCE · Event
Athens and Sparta swear fifty years of peace, restore their conquests and their prisoners — and neither side delivers. The 'peace' is six years of proxy fighting, broken oaths and shifting alliances, less an ending than an intermission while both cities look for the next opening.
On these timelines: The Peloponnesian War, Ancient Greece, Master
More from The Peloponnesian War
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Battle of Aegospotami (405 BCE)
- Pericles delivers the Funeral Oration (430 BCE)
- Death of Pericles (429 BCE)
- Athens destroys Melos (416 BCE)
- Alcibiades defects to Sparta (415 BCE)
- Sparta votes for war with Athens (432 BCE)
- Pylos and Sphacteria (425 BCE)
Around 421 BCE
- Wars of the Diadochi (322 BCE)
- Reign of Alexander the Great (336 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)