The Peace of Nicias
In March 421 BCE, the Peace of Nicias was signed. It proposed fifty years of peace shortly after the Spartan hero Brasidas and the Athenian general Cleon died in the Second Battle of Amphipolis. It marked the first half of the Peloponnesian War. This truce lasted only six years.
Source: Durant, Will, 1885-1981, The Story of Civilization, Vol. 2: The Life of Greece , A history of Greek government, industry, manners, morals, religion, philosophy, science, literature and art from the earliest times to the Roman conquest. Simon and Schuster, 1939.
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