* Nicias, the leader of the aristocratic and peace party in Athens and Pleistoanax, King of Sparta, negotiate the Peace of Nicias between Athens and Sparta, which brings a temporary end to the Peloponnesian War.

The negotiations were begun by Pleistoanax, King of Sparta, and the Athenian general Nicias.

* Despite the Peace of Nicias still being in effect, Sparta's King Agis II gathers a strong army at Philus and descends upon Argos by marching at night from the north.

Finally, after the reign of Menander I, several Indo-Greek rulers, such as Amyntas, King Nicias, Peukolaos, Hermaeus, Hippostratos and Menander II, depicted themselves or their Greek deities forming with the right hand a benediction gesture identical to the Buddhist vitarka mudra ( thumb and index joined together, with other fingers extended ), which in Buddhism signifies the transmission of Buddha's teaching.

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Fearing that he would be unjustly condemned, Alcibiades defected to Sparta and Nicias was placed in charge of the mission.

* 421 BC: The Peace of Nicias puts a temporary end to the hostilities between Athens and Sparta.

* 419 BC: The Peace of Nicias is broken when Sparta defeats Argos.

* After learning that he has been condemned to death in absentia, Alcibiades defects to Sparta and Nicias is placed in charge of the Sicilian expedition.

The Peace of Nicias was a peace treaty signed between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in the March 421 BC, ending the first half of the Peloponnesian War.

The Athenian general, Laches, with the support of Nicias, successfully moved in the Athenian Assembly in 423 BC for an armistice with Sparta to check the progress of Sparta's most effective general, Brasidas.

* One of the seventeen representatives for Sparta to swear an oath for the Peace of Nicias

In 415, Athens and Sparta had been formally at peace since 421, when the Peace of Nicias had brought the Archidamian War to a close.

The Peace of Nicias concluded with Sparta recovering its hostages and Athens recovering the city of Amphipolis.

Nicias was soon captured as well, and both were executed despite the contrary orders of Gylippus, who had hoped Demosthenes and Nicias could be brought back to Sparta as prisoners.

Historians Arnold W. Gomme and Raphael Sealey believe, and Thucydides reports, that Alcibiades was offended that the Spartans had negotiated that treaty through Nicias and Laches, overlooking him on account of his youth.

Historians Arnold W. Gomme and Raphael Sealey believe, and Thucydides reports, that Alcibiades was offended that the Spartans had negotiated that treaty through Nicias and Laches, overlooking him on account of his youth.

After an interruption caused by the Peloponnesian War, the temple was finished in the time of Nicias ' peace, between 421 BC and 415 BC.

This period of the war was concluded in 421 BC, with the signing of the Peace of Nicias.

Spartan anxiety over the return of the prisoners, who were taken to Athens as hostages, contributed to their acceptance of the Peace of Nicias in 421 BC.

* 421 Peace of Nicias brings temporary end to war, but Alcibiades, a nephew of Pericles, makes anti-Sparta alliance

Nevertheless, he was largely responsible for the successful negotiations which led to the Peace of Nicias in 421 BC.

Thus, in 421 the peace of Nicias was signed.

An Athenian fleet under Nicias and Nicostratus recovered Mende and blockaded Scione, which fell two years later ( 421 BC ).

Nicias personally surrendered to Gylippus, hoping the Spartan would remember his role in the peace treaty of 421.

The next few years would see a newly aggressive Athens, and it would take a string of Athenian reverses to diffuse the impetus that the surrenders had given and bring the two sides to the table to negotiate the Peace of Nicias in 421 BC.

After the battle, neither the Athenians or the Spartans wanted to continue the war ( Cleon and Brasidas being the most hawkish members from each side ), and the Peace of Nicias was signed in 421 BC.

The first stage of the war ( known as the Archidamian War for the Spartan king, Archidamus II ) lasted until 421 BC with the signing of the Peace of Nicias.

Those who signed the Peace of Nicias in 421 BC swore to uphold it for fifty years.

Demosthenes was one of the signatories of the Peace of Nicias in 421 BC, which ended the first half of the Peloponnesian War.

It won second prize at the City Dionysia where it was staged just a few days before the ratification of the Peace of Nicias ( 421 BC ), which promised to end the ten year old Peloponnesian War.

The Peace of Nicias was ratified soon after the City Dionysia, where Peace was performed, early in the spring of 421 BC.

A second attempt took place in 437 BC on the same site under the guidance of Hagnon, son of Nicias.

Instead of attacking at once, Nicias procrastinated and the campaigning season of 415 BC ended with Syracuse scarcely damaged.

** Nicias, Athenian soldier and statesman ( b. 470 BC )

Somewhere in the years 416 – 415 BC, a complex struggle took place between Hyperbolos on one side and Nicias and Alcibiades on the other.

* Nicias, Athenian soldier and statesman ( b. 470 BC )

He had commanded the group of Greek colonists who founded Amphipolis in 437 – 6 BC, had served as a general on several occasions before and during the Peloponnesian War, and was one of the signers of the Peace of Nicias.

In the wake of the Athenian defeat in Sicily, revolts began to break out among Athens ' subject states in the Aegean Sea and the Peace of Nicias fell apart ; the Peloponnesian War resumed in full by 412 BC.

Nicias (; Νικίας ; c. 470 BC – 413 BC ), or Nikias, was an Athenian politician and general during the period of the Peloponnesian War.

After Pericles ' death in 429 BC, Nicias became an important Athenian politician with the aristocratic ( conservative ) party looking to him as their leader.

Nicias was Strategos in both 427 BC and 425 BC.

During the years 416 BC and 415 BC, a complex struggle took place between Hyperbolos on one side and Nicias and Alcibiades on the other.