So now the stage was set for the destructive Peloponnesean War. A chain of events linked by treaty and broken my pride and emotion would lead to the end of The Golden Age. So many chances at resolution lost; so many links in the chain that could have broken it and kept the peace. But perhaps Thucydides was right. If not this chain perhaps their would have been another one to cause the war. Power is selfish in history because it knows itself and sees an opposing power as a threat. Treaties fail more than they succeed because the dynamics that led to them change -- money, land or the personalities of the players tip the balance one way or the other.
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