Talk:Pleistoanax

Latest comment: 16 years ago by Erkan Yilmaz in topic about the withdraw and being bribed

about the withdraw and being bribed edit

Kagan also believes that "A more likely explanation is that Pericles offered them acceptable peace terms, making hostilities unnecessary. In fact, a few months later the Spartans and Athenians did conclude a treaty."

Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta in Savage Conflict 431-404 BC, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003 (First published in the USA by Penguin Putnam 2003), page 17f. ----Erkan Yilmaz (evaluate me!, discussion) 11:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

There is now added more info about the mentioned scholars who find the bribe is not an adequate and/or enough info to explain the happennings, see [1].
BTW: these changes are in line with the Wikiversity course Kurs:Der Peloponnesische Krieg (Peloponnesian War). ----Erkan Yilmaz (evaluate me!, discussion) 10:17, 9 September 2007 (UTC)Reply