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The Peace of Nicias, also spelled as Peace of Nikias,[1] was a peace treaty signed between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in 421 BCE that ended the first half of the Peloponnesian War.[2] With both sides having been ravaged by the war,[3] with a number of great battles that led to great losses for both city-states, and the deaths of Spartan general Brasidas and Athenian politician Kleon at the Battle of Amphipolis, the two cities to push for peace.[4]
Sparta was represented by Kings Agis II and Pleistoanax,[5] while Athens was represented by newly-elected general Nicias, who had been championed by Sokrates and others that had held onto Perikles's principles during Kleon's reign.[3] The negotiations took time, but at the end Athens agreed to release the Spartan prisoners captured after the Battle of Sphakteria,[1] and both sides agreed to return to the way things were prior to the war,[4] and to take an fifty-year oath of harmony.[3]
Aspasia, after revealing to the misthios Kassandra that she was the leader of the Cult of Kosmos, said that she would make sure that the "sham of an accord" that was the Peace of Nicias would not last, allowing a way for an united Greek world following another war. Kassandra tried to find Aspasia, but she had managed to escape.[6] The "Fifty-Year Peace" promised by the treaty lasted only six years, due in large part to Athens' unpopularity among the other members of the Delian League.[4]
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey novel (first mentioned)
- Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game (mentioned only)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece – Tours: The Battles of Pylos and Sphakteria
- ↑ Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game – Forging History – Historical Hooks: "The Peace of Nicias"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Assassin's Creed: Odyssey novel – Chapter 18
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece – Tours: Battle of Amphipolis
- ↑ Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece – Discovery Sites – Lakonia: "Kings of the Peloponnesian War"
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey novel – Epilogue