Sanctions date back to antiquity, with the "Megarian Decree" issued by Athenian statesman Pericles in 432 BC being the first recorded ...

Three years later negotiations, led by Aristides of Athens, began on the Greek island of Delos. The result was the Delian League, a sort of ancient equivalent to NATO. Few records remain of this ...

He does not seem to have played a major role in the formation of the Delian League, the great naval alliance that would ensure the city's future greatness. Nor does he seem to have occupied any of ...