The Peace of Nicias, named after the chief Athenian negotiator, was a treaty of mutual defense between Athens and Sparta in which they each agreed to defend each other for the next fifty years!
They carried light weapons and formed a daunting ... A prolific writer on Sparta and Athens, Antonio Penadés teaches Greek History at the L’iber Museum in Valencia, Spain.
Billows identifies the “Centrifugal Polis Model,” like the Boeotian Confederation that formed around Thebes, the “Centripetal Polis Model 1,” Sparta and the Periokic System, and “Centripetal Polis ...