Thirty Years’ Peace

…to have helped formulate the Thirty Years’ Treaty between Athens and Sparta in 446/445.

…arrangement was ratified by the Thirty Years’ Peace (winter 446–445). For Athens, the essential loss was that of Megara, which meant that a Spartan army could appear in Attica at any time. That Pericles doubted the stability of the settlement and saw the need to develop an alternative basic strategy…