{"slug": "ancient-elis", "label": "Ancient Elis", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Elis", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6536845", "qid": "Q6536845", "description": "region of Ancient Greece", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [-434, -219], "span_label": ["435 BCE", "220 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "argos-peloponnese", "label": "Argos, Peloponnese", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "arcadia-ancient-region", "label": "Arcadia (ancient region)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aratus-of-sicyon", "label": "Aratus of Sicyon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-corinth", "label": "Ancient Corinth", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aetolia", "label": "Aetolia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "peloponnese", "label": "Peloponnese", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "boeotia", "label": "Boeotia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alcibiades", "label": "Alcibiades", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "strategos", "label": "Strategos", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nicias", "label": "Nicias", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -434, "year_label": "435 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "A gold and ivory statue of Zeus, king of the gods, is completed at Elis by the Athenian sculptor Phidias for the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. The statue becomes one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The Olympian Zeus is about seven times life size (or 13 metres) and occupies the full height of the temple.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172915#Art", "title": "435 BC", "revid": 1354172915, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": -419, "year_label": "420 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The young and popular Alcibiades is elected \"Strategos\" (one of a board of ten generals) and begins to dominate Athenian life and politics. A Quadruple Alliance of Athens, Argos, Mantineia and Elis, which has been organised by Alcibiades (in opposition to Nicias) confronts a Spartan-Boeotian alliance.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360316147#Greece", "title": "420 BC", "revid": 1360316147, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -399, "year_label": "400 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "War breaks out between Sparta and Elis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361270863#By_place", "title": "400 BC", "revid": 1361270863, "section": "Events › By place"}}, {"year": -398, "year_label": "399 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Sparta forces Elis to surrender in the spring.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1262065705#Greece", "title": "399 BC", "revid": 1262065705, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -330, "year_label": "331 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "While Alexander is fighting in Asia, Agis III of Sparta, profiting from the Macedonian king's absence from Greece, leads some of the Greek cities in a revolt. With Persian money and 8,000 Greek mercenaries, he holds Crete against Macedonian forces. In the Peloponnesus he routs a force under the Macedonian general Coragus and, although Athens stays neutral, he is joined by Elis, Achaea (except Pellene) and Arcadia, with the exception of Megalopolis, the staunchly anti-Spartan capital of Arcadia, which Agis III's forces besiege.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210205718#Greece", "title": "331 BC", "revid": 1210205718, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -302, "year_label": "303 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius Poliorcetes invades the Peloponnese and occupies Corinth, Sicyon, and Argos in the Peloponnese, and Achaea, Elis and almost all of Arcadia join his side.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172932#Greece", "title": "303 BC", "revid": 1354172932, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -269, "year_label": "270 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Pyrrho, Greek philosopher from Elis, credited as being the first skeptic philosopher and inspiration for the school known as Pyrrhonism (b. c. 360 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1317756359#Deaths", "title": "270 BC", "revid": 1317756359, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -225, "year_label": "226 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Spartan King Cleomenes III captures Mantinea and defeats the Achaean League under Aratus of Sicyon at Hecatombaeum, near Dyme in north-eastern Elis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360927548#Greece", "title": "226 BC", "revid": 1360927548, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -219, "year_label": "220 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Aratus of Sicyon counters Aetolian aggression by obtaining the assistance of the Hellenic League now under the leadership of Philip V of Macedon. In the resulting Social War, the Hellenic League of Greek states is assembled in Corinth at Philip V's instigation. He then leads the Hellenic League in battles against Aetolia, Sparta and Elis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598324#Greece", "title": "220 BC", "revid": 1360598324, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}]}