{"slug": "amphipolis", "label": "Amphipolis", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphipolis", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217414", "qid": "Q217414", "description": "ancient city of Macedonia, Greece", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [-435, -41], "span_label": ["436 BCE", "42 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "philip-ii-of-macedon", "label": "Philip II of Macedon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "thessaly", "label": "Thessaly", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "illyria", "label": "Illyria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "black-sea", "label": "Black Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-corinth", "label": "Ancient Corinth", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pericles", "label": "Pericles", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "philip-v-of-macedon", "label": "Philip V of Macedon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "perseus-of-macedon", "label": "Perseus of Macedon", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -435, "year_label": "436 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Following Pericles' visit to the Black Sea, a large Athenian colony is founded at Amphipolis. This is disconcertingly close to an outpost of Corinthian influence at Potidaea in the Chalcidice. Corinth feels it is being indirectly pressured by Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173296#Greece", "title": "436 BC", "revid": 1354173296, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -423, "year_label": "424 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After he frustrates the Athenian attack on Megara, Brasidas marches through Boeotia and Thessaly to Chalcidice at the head of 700 helots and 1000 Peloponnesian mercenaries to join the Macedonian king Perdiccas II. Refusing to be made a tool for the furtherance of Perdiccas' ambitions, Brasidas wins over the important cities of Acanthus, Stagirus, Amphipolis, and Torone as well as several minor towns. An attack on Eion is foiled by the arrival of Thucydides at the head of an Athenian squadron.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1231841566#Greece", "title": "424 BC", "revid": 1231841566, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -421, "year_label": "422 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Athenian leader, Cleon, ends the truce between Athens and Sparta after he resolves to rescue the town of Amphipolis in Macedonia. However, through skillful generalship by Brasidas, the Spartans rout the Athenians in the Battle of Amphipolis. Both Brasidas and Cleon are killed in the battle, thereby removing the key members of the pro-war factions on both sides.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370481674#Greece", "title": "422 BC", "revid": 1370481674, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -368, "year_label": "369 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "On the death of the Macedonian King Amyntas III, his eldest son Alexander II becomes king. The young king is simultaneously faced with an Illyrian invasion from the north-west and an attack from the east by the pretender of the Macedonian throne, Pausanias (who quickly captures several cities and threatens the queen mother, Eurydice). Alexander defeats his enemies with the help of the Athenian general Iphicrates, who has been sailing along the Macedonian coast on the way to recapture Amphipolis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1256893468#Greece", "title": "369 BC", "revid": 1256893468, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -363, "year_label": "364 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian general, Iphicrates, fails in attempts to recover Amphipolis. Retiring to Thrace, Iphicrates fights for his father-in-law, the Thracian king Cotys I, against Athens for the possession of the Thracian Chersonese. Cotys I is victorious and controls the whole Chersonese peninsula by 359 BC.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354174238#Greece", "title": "364 BC", "revid": 1354174238, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -358, "year_label": "359 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Illyrians prepare to close in, the Paeonians raid from the north and two claimants to the Macedonian throne are supported by foreign powers. Philip II buys off his dangerous neighbours and, with a treaty, cedes Amphipolis to Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1296027918#Macedonia", "title": "359 BC", "revid": 1296027918, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": -356, "year_label": "357 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Macedonian general, Parmenion, wins a great victory over the Illyrians. King Philip II of Macedon, having disposed of an Illyrian threat, occupies the Athenian city of Amphipolis (which commands the gold mines of Mount Pangaion). Philip II now has control of the strategic city which secures the eastern frontier of Macedonia and gives him access into Thrace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210250153#Macedonia", "title": "357 BC", "revid": 1210250153, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": -355, "year_label": "356 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Philip II of Macedon secretly offers the city of Amphipolis back to the Athenians in exchange for the valuable port of Pydna. Despite the Athenians being willing to comply, both Pydna and Potidaea are conquered by the Macedonians (along with other Athenian strongholds in Thessaly and Chalcidice) despite being defended by Athenian forces led by general and mercenary commander, Chares, as well as generals Iphicrates and Timotheus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343819365#Greece", "title": "356 BC", "revid": 1343819365, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -319, "year_label": "320 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Zoilus, Greek grammarian, cynic philosopher and literary critic from Amphipolis in Macedon (b. c. 400 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1166431272#Deaths", "title": "320 BC", "revid": 1166431272, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -178, "year_label": "179 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Philip V of Macedon dies at Amphipolis in Macedonia, remorseful for having put his younger son Demetrius to death, at the instigation of his older son Perseus. Nevertheless, he is succeeded by his son Perseus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209269446#Greece", "title": "179 BC", "revid": 1209269446, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -41, "year_label": "42 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July", "text": "July – Mark Antony lands with an army (28 legions) in Illyria, leaving Octavian ill at Dyrrachium, and marches to Amphipolis. Admiral Ahenobarbus, with the Republican fleet (130 warships), blockades the Adriatic Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352172627#Roman_Republic", "title": "42 BC", "revid": 1352172627, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}]}