{"slug": "cleon", "label": "Cleon", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleon", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q298220", "qid": "Q298220", "description": "Athenian statesman and general (died 422 BC)", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [-428, -416], "span_label": ["429 BCE", "417 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "nicias", "label": "Nicias", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "mytilene", "label": "Mytilene", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "amphipolis", "label": "Amphipolis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "brasidas", "label": "Brasidas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alcibiades", "label": "Alcibiades", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pericles", "label": "Pericles", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -428, "year_label": "429 BCE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The plague in Athens that is killing thousands of the city's inhabitants, claims Pericles. Cleon, who has headed the opposition to Pericles's rule, succeeds to power in Athens following Pericles's death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172916#Greece", "title": "429 BC", "revid": 1354172916, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -426, "year_label": "427 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Following the surrender of Mytilene to Athens, the Athenian leader Cleon insists that the city be destroyed. In response to the pleadings of a number of Athenian citizens, Cleon's decree to destroy the population of Mytilene is reversed with only the ringleaders of the Mytilenean revolt being executed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210114491#Greece", "title": "427 BC", "revid": 1210114491, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -425, "year_label": "426 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian leader Cleon and Athenian general Demosthenes revitalise the city's military and naval forces despite opposition from Nicias, a rich merchant and soldier, and his supporters.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172947#Greece", "title": "426 BC", "revid": 1354172947, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -424, "year_label": "425 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cleon joins Demosthenes in the invasion by Athenian troops of Sphacteria. The resulting Battle of Pylos results in an Athenian victory leading to the surrender of many of the Spartan troops. Pylos remains in Athenian hands, and is used as a base for raids into Spartan territory and as a refuge for fleeing Spartan helots.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242238622#Greece", "title": "425 BC", "revid": 1242238622, "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": -421, "year_label": "422 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Cleon, Athenian politician and general", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370481674#Deaths", "title": "422 BC", "revid": 1370481674, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -416, "year_label": "417 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Following the loss by Athens and its allies in the Battle of Mantinea, a political \"tug of war\" takes place in Athens. Alcibiades joins forces with Nicias against Hyperbolus, the successor of the demagogue politician Cleon as champion of the common people. Hyperbolus tries to bring about the ostracism of either Nicias or Alcibiades, but the two men combine their influence and induce the Athenian people to expel Hyperbolus instead.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1237771460#Greece", "title": "417 BC", "revid": 1237771460, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}]}