Editing Plataea (section)

=== Relocation to Scione ===
In 423 BC, Athens and Sparta negotiated a one-year truce in the midst of the Pelopennesian War.  One of the terms was that no new conquests or revolts were to take place once the truce was signed.  The people of [[Scione]], in the [[Chalkidiki|Chalcidice]], had revolted about this time, and while Sparta claimed it was before the truce, Athens had intelligence that it took place afterward.  The Athenian assembly then passed a decree "to reduce and put to death the Scionaeans".<ref>Thuc., iv.122.6.</ref>  The next year they besieged the city, finally subduing it and carrying out the decree in 420.  Once this was done, they gave the town to those Plataeans then living at Athens to be their new home.<ref>Thuc. v.130-131 and v.32; Isocrates, ''Panegyricus'', § 109; Diodorus Siculus, ''Library of History'', xii. 76.</ref>

At the close of the Peloponnesian War, Athens was compelled to evacuate Scione, and the Plataeans again found a hospitable welcome at Athens.<ref>Plutarch, ''Life of Lysander'', 14.</ref>