Andocides On the Peace with Sparta 6

ed. Kenneth John Maidment

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On the Peace with Sparta. Andocides. ed. Kenneth John Maidment. London. 1941.

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Current edition Perseus

On the Peace with Sparta (English) (Andocides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, translator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (1960 printing).)

Editions (1)
Περὶ τῆς πρὸς Λακεδαιμονίους εἰρήνης Perseus (Andocides. Minor Attic Orators, Vol. 1. Maidment, Kenneth John, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941 (1960 printing).) — 6 focus

Notes on the current edition

On the Peace with Sparta

1. There is bad confusion here. Aegina lost her independence and was incorporated in the Athenian empire in 457. Under the Thirty Years’ Peace of 446 she was guaranteed autonomy on condition that she continued to pay tribute. In 432, she made secret overtures to Sparta , alleging that her autonomy had not been respected. Thus Andocides may be thinking of her share in precipitating the Archidamian War. On the other hand, the peace which follows is not the Peace of Nicias; when talking of the benefits which ensued from it, Andocides seems to be referring once again to the Thirty Years’ Peace (see Andoc. 3.3 ). Probably he is thinking of the peace of 446, and assumes that because the status of Aegina figured prominently in the negotiations, it was Aegina which had originally sent Athens to war.