{"slug": "brasidas", "label": "Brasidas", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasidas", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311742", "qid": "Q311742", "description": "5th century BC Spartan general", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-430, -421], "span_label": ["431 BCE", "422 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}], "related": [{"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "peloponnesus", "label": "Peloponnesus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "amphipolis", "label": "Amphipolis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cleon", "label": "Cleon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thebes-greece", "label": "Thebes, Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "boeotia", "label": "Boeotia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alcibiades", "label": "Alcibiades", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "megara", "label": "Megara", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "socrates", "label": "Socrates", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "peloponnese", "label": "Peloponnese", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -430, "year_label": "431 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian fleet raids the Peloponnese and pilages the area around Methone. The town is saved through an intervention by the Spartan general Brasidas. The Athenians then sail on laying waste to the coastal areas of the western Peloponnese.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364036128#Greece", "title": "431 BC", "revid": 1364036128, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -427, "year_label": "428 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Despite encouragement from the Ionian leaders to engage the Athenians, Alcidas declines. Rather, Alcidas leads his fleet to Cyllene where the Spartans resolve to strengthen the fleet and send it to Corcyra where a revolution has broken out. Spartan leaders, Brasidas and Alcidas, then defeat a fleet of Corcyran ships. However, they retire when word reaches them that 60 Athenian ships from Leucas under the command of Eurymedon have been dispatched to intercept them.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1151725633#Greece", "title": "428 BC", "revid": 1151725633, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -424, "year_label": "425 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demosthenes captures and fortifies the port of Pylos in the Peloponnesus, giving Athens a strong base close to Sparta. Meanwhile, a Spartan army, commanded by Brasidas, lands on the nearby island of Sphacteria, but is repulsed by the Athenians. An Athenian fleet summoned by Demosthenes bottles up the Spartan navy in Navarino Bay.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242238622#Greece", "title": "425 BC", "revid": 1242238622, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -423, "year_label": "424 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demosthenes and Hippocrates attempt to capture Megara, but they are defeated by the Spartans under their general Brasidas. Demosthenes then marches to Naupactus to assist in a democratic revolution, and to gather troops for an invasion of Boeotia. However, Demosthenes and Hippocrates are unable to coordinate their attacks and Hippocrates is defeated at the Battle of Delium by Pagondas of Thebes. During the battle, Socrates is said to have saved the life of Alcibiades. Demosthenes attacks Sicyon and is defeated as well.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1231841566#Greece", "title": "424 BC", "revid": 1231841566, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -422, "year_label": "423 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian general, Laches, successfully moves in the Athenian Assembly for an armistice with Sparta to check the progress of Sparta's most effective general, Brasidas. However, the \"Truce of Laches\" has little impact on Brasidas and collapses within a year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360180006#Greece", "title": "423 BC", "revid": 1360180006, "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"}}]}