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about the withdraw and being bribed

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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]