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A
HISTORY OF GREECE.
VOL. VII.
BY
GEORGE GROTE, Esq.
THIRD EDITION.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1855.
BEQUEST OF
ARTHUR STUART WALCOTT
JUNE 1, 1923
KPE 1083(7),
9/2 45473
PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER LV.
From the Peace of Nikias to the Olympic Festival of Olym-
piad 90.
Page
Negotiations for peace during the winter after the battle of Am-
phipolis
1
Peace called the peace of Nikias-concluded in March 421 B.C.
Conditions of peace
2
Peace accepted at Sparta by the majority of members of the Pelo-
ponnesian alliance...........
3
The most powerful members of the alliance refuse to accept the truce-Boeotians, Megarians, Corinthians, and Eleians
Position and feelings of the Lacedæmonians-their great anxiety
for peace-their uncertain relations with Argos........
Steps taken by the Lacedæmonians to execute the peace-Amphi-
polis is not restored to Athens-the great allies of Sparta do not
accept the peace
ib.
4
Separate alliance for mutual defence concluded between Sparta
and Athens
Athens restores the Spartan captives .......
Mismanagement of the political interests of Athens by Nikias and
By the terms of the alliance, Athens renounced all the advantages
of her position in reference to the Lacedæmonians—she gained
none of those concessions upon which she calculated, while they
gained materially
Discontent and remonstrances of the Athenians against Sparta in
consequence of the non-performance of the conditions-they
repent of having given up the captives-excuses of Sparta ......
New combinations in Peloponnesus-suspicion entertained of con-
cert between Sparta and Athens-Argos stands prominently for-
ward-state of Argos-aristocratical regiment of one thousand
formed in that city
a