... Spartan hands. Athens ensured Sparta did not have control of Delphi. Athenian foreign policy continually evolved, as the various treaties indicate. Hornblower explains that the truce made with Sparta in 451 "need not have been motivated by more that a commonsense desire to deal with enemies one by one."" Hornblower acknowledges that a peace may have been made with Persia in 439. Plutarch ... ...

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