{"slug": "conon", "label": "Conon", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conon", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q363832", "qid": "Q363832", "description": "ancient Athenian general and admiral", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [-405, -377], "span_label": ["406 BCE", "378 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "cyprus", "label": "Cyprus", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "pharnabazus-5th-century-bc", "label": "Pharnabazus (5th century BC)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rhodes", "label": "Rhodes", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sea-of-marmara", "label": "Sea of Marmara", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hellespont", "label": "Hellespont", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lysander", "label": "Lysander", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cilicia", "label": "Cilicia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "phoenicia", "label": "Phoenicia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greece", "label": "Greece", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -405, "year_label": "406 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Alcibiades is replaced by a board of generals. Athens sends a member of the board, Admiral Conon, to relieve the siege of Mytilene. To defend Lesbos, Conon is forced to move his numerically inferior fleet from Samos to the Hekatonnesi islands near Methymna. When Callicratidas attacks him, Conon is forced back to Mytilene, where he is blockaded by Callicratidas' Spartan fleet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350128825#Greece", "title": "406 BC", "revid": 1350128825, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -404, "year_label": "405 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After their victory in the Battle of Arginusae over the Spartans, the Athenian fleet follows the reappointed Spartan admiral, Lysander, to the Hellespont. The Athenian fleet under Admiral Conon is destroyed by the Spartans under Lysander in the Battle of Aegospotami in the Sea of Marmara and Conon flees to Cyprus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350128832#Greece", "title": "405 BC", "revid": 1350128832, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -399, "year_label": "400 BCE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "With the outbreak of the war between Sparta and the Persians, the Athenian admiral, Conon, obtains joint command, with Pharnabazus, of a Persian fleet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361270863#By_place", "title": "400 BC", "revid": 1361270863, "section": "Events › By place"}}, {"year": -395, "year_label": "396 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Persians assemble a joint Phoenician, Cilician, and Cypriot fleet, under the command of the experienced Athenian admiral, Conon, and seize Rhodes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306223289#Persian_Empire", "title": "396 BC", "revid": 1306223289, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}, {"year": -393, "year_label": "394 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian general Conon, the Persian satrap Pharnabazus and Evagoras, King of Salamis, win an overwhelming naval victory over the Spartans under Peisander in the Battle of Cnidus (near Rhodes). Following this victory, Conon and Pharnabazus sail along the coast of Ionia, expelling Spartan governors and garrisons from the cities, although they fail to reduce the Spartan bases at Abydos and Sestos. With the Spartan bid for building an empire crumbling, Persia gains mastery of the Aegean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172908#Greece", "title": "394 BC", "revid": 1354172908, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -392, "year_label": "393 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian general Conon and the Persian satrap Pharnabazus sail to mainland Greece, where they raid the coast of Laconia and seize the island of Cythera, where they leave a garrison and an Athenian governor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363862420#Greece", "title": "393 BC", "revid": 1363862420, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -391, "year_label": "392 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "During the Corinthian War, the Spartans dispatch an ambassador, Antalcidas, to the Persian satrap Tiribazus, hoping to turn the Persians against the allies by informing them of Conon's use of the Persian fleet to begin rebuilding the Athenian empire. Learning of this, the Athenians send an embassy led by Conon to present their case to the Persians at Sardis. Alarmed by Conon's actions, Tiribazus arrests him, and secretly provides the Spartans with money to equip a fleet. Although Conon quickly escapes, he dies in Cyprus without returning to Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326556748#Greece", "title": "392 BC", "revid": 1326556748, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -391, "year_label": "392 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Conon, Athenian general (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326556748#Deaths", "title": "392 BC", "revid": 1326556748, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -377, "year_label": "378 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Timotheus, the son of the Athenian general Conon, is elected strategos of Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1279678779#Greece", "title": "378 BC", "revid": 1279678779, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}]}