Antalkidas

Antalkidas - (? - 367 p.n.) - Spartan politician and leader. Antalkidas during the Corinthian War (394 - 387), since 392 was a Spartan marshal in Sardes at the court of the Persian satrapy Tiribazos. In his message, he proposed to the Persian king Artaxerxes II Mnemon the withdrawal of Greek cities in Asia Minor, in return for guaranteeing the autonomy of all other cities, which would have resulted in the dissolution of all unions outside the Peloponnesian Union led by Sparta. At the beginning, the king and Athens rejected the proposals, but after addressing Athens on the side of Euagoras I, the king of Cyprus, in the battle with the Persians. Artaxerxes changed his policy and Antalkidas in 387 p.n.e. The year has come to an end with Persia.

To gain Athens and their allies, Antalkidas, thanks to the money and assistance of Tiribazos, took over the Hellespont and thus cut off supplies from the Black Sea to Greece, including Athens. This maneuver caused the submission of the Greek states as a result of which in 386 p.n.e. Antalkidas led to the signing of the so-called. "royal peace" or sometimes called the peace of Antalkidas. The original message of the Spartan policy was in the text: King Artaxerxes thinks it is right that the cities of Asia belong to him, and the islands of Klazomeday and Cyprus. Other Greek cities, small and large, have to be independent ... who will not accept this peace with this I will fight on land and sea, ships and money

In 367, after the defeat of Kleombrotos I under Leuktras and the collapse of the Sparta hegemony, Antalkidas set out for Persia to negotiate with Suzy. On the way back, Antalkidas committed suicide. Bibliography

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