Peace of Callias
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The Peace of Callias was a treaty signed around 450/449 BCE that officially ended the Greco-Persian Wars. This series of conflicts spanned nearly fifty years, with major fighting occurring during two Persian invasions of mainland Greece in 490 and 479 BCE. The Greeks, despite facing a powerful Persian empire, successfully defended their independence and culture. The Peace of Callias, generally credited to the Athenian diplomat Callias, established terms that recognized the autonomy of Greek city-states in Asia Minor and restricted Persian naval activity in the Aegean Sea.12
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ancient Greek civilizationPeace with Persia…where one should place the Peace of Callias (449), mentioned by Diodorus but one of Thucydides’ most famous omissions. Thucydides’ subsequent narrative of the Peloponnesian War, however, presupposes it at a number of points, especially in the context of Greek dealings with Persia in 411. More generally, a peace is…
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…a routine renewal of the Peace of Callias, Athens began an entanglement in Anatolia with the Persian satrap Pissuthnes and subsequently with his natural son Amorges; it sent mercenary help to Pissuthnes and perhaps Amorges.
Read More…a routine renewal of the Peace of Callias, Athens began an entanglement in Anatolia with the Persian satrap Pissuthnes and subsequently with his natural son Amorges; it sent mercenary help to Pissuthnes and perhaps Amorges.
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