{"slug": "delphi", "label": "Delphi", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75459", "qid": "Q75459", "description": "ancient town in Fokida, Greece", "entries": 15, "years": 13, "span": [-547, -137], "span_label": ["548 BCE", "138 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pericles", "label": "Pericles", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-senate", "label": "Roman Senate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pergamum", "label": "Pergamum", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "perseus-of-macedon", "label": "Perseus of Macedon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "eumenes-ii", "label": "Eumenes II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thrace", "label": "Thrace", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alexander-the-great", "label": "Alexander the Great", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -547, "year_label": "548 BCE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "The Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece is damaged in a fire. The Alcmaeonids rebuild the structure.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303256206#Events", "title": "548 BC", "revid": 1303256206, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -529, "year_label": "530 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Temple of Apollo at Delphi is built (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342712884#Art_and_architecture", "title": "530 BC", "revid": 1342712884, "section": "Events › By topic › Art and architecture"}}, {"year": -529, "year_label": "530 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Siphnian Treasury in Delphi is begun (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342712884#Art_and_architecture", "title": "530 BC", "revid": 1342712884, "section": "Events › By topic › Art and architecture"}}, {"year": -529, "year_label": "530 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Battle between the Gods and the Giants, fragments of the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury, from the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is begun (approximate date). It is now at the Delphi Archaeological Museum.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342712884#Art_and_architecture", "title": "530 BC", "revid": 1342712884, "section": "Events › By topic › Art and architecture"}}, {"year": -490, "year_label": "491 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cleomenes I engineers the deposing of Spartan co-ruler Demaratus (and his replacement by Cleomenes’ cousin Leotychidas) by bribing the oracle at Delphi to announce that this action was divine will. The two Spartan kings successfully capture the Persian collaborators in Aegina.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364322520#Greece", "title": "491 BC", "revid": 1364322520, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -469, "year_label": "470 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Charioteer, in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is created in commemoration of a victory in the Pythian Games of 478 or 474 BC (approximate date). It is now preserved at the Delphi Archaeological Museum.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129358#Art", "title": "470 BC", "revid": 1350129358, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": -448, "year_label": "449 BCE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "The Second Sacred War erupts between Athens and Sparta, when Sparta forcefully detaches Delphi from Phocis and renders it independent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1309703382#Greece", "title": "449 BC", "revid": 1309703382, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -447, "year_label": "448 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Pericles leads the Athenian army against Delphi to restore the sanctuary of the oracle of Delphi to Phocis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1272690289#Greece", "title": "448 BC", "revid": 1272690289, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -399, "year_label": "400 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Theodorus from Phokaia in Asia Minor, builds the Tholos of Delphi, the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia in Delphi (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361270863#By_topic", "title": "400 BC", "revid": 1361270863, "section": "Events › By topic"}}, {"year": -372, "year_label": "373 BCE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "The Temple of Apollo in Delphi is destroyed by an earthquake.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1080639284#Greece", "title": "373 BC", "revid": 1080639284, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -355, "year_label": "356 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Phocians capture and sack Delphi in whose territory the famous temple and oracle stand. A sacred war is declared against them by the other members of the Great Amphictyonic League. The Phocians, led by two capable generals, Philomelus and Onomarchus, use Delphi's riches to hire a mercenary army to carry the war into Boeotia and Thessaly.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343819365#Greece", "title": "356 BC", "revid": 1343819365, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -334, "year_label": "335 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Returning to Macedonia by way of Delphi (where the Pythian priestess acclaims him \"invincible\"), King Alexander III of Macedonia advances into Thrace in order to secure the Danube as the northern boundary of the Macedonian kingdom. After forcing the Shipka Pass and crushing the Triballi, he crosses the Danube to disperse the Getae. Turning west, he then defeats and shatters a coalition of Illyrians who are invading Macedonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=996420033#Greece", "title": "335 BC", "revid": 996420033, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -215, "year_label": "216 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Roman historian Quintus Fabius Pictor is sent to Delphi in Greece to consult the Oracle for advice about what Rome should do after its defeat in the Battle of Cannae.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1336012311#Roman_Republic", "title": "216 BC", "revid": 1336012311, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -171, "year_label": "172 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Eumenes II of Pergamum travels to Rome to warn the Roman Senate of the danger from Perseus of Macedon. On his return from Rome, Eumenes II is nearly killed at Delphi and Perseus is suspected of being the instigator.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370481117#Greece", "title": "172 BC", "revid": 1370481117, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -137, "year_label": "138 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Hymn to Apollo is written and inscribed on stone in Delphi; it is the earliest surviving notated music, in a substantial and legible fragment, in the western world.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361991985#Arts_and_sciences", "title": "138 BC", "revid": 1361991985, "section": "Events › By topic › Arts and sciences"}}]}