{"slug": "hellenistic-civilization", "label": "Hellenistic civilization", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_civilization", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [-434, 62], "span_label": ["435 BCE", "62 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "judea", "label": "Judea", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "seleucid", "label": "Seleucid", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alexandria", "label": "Alexandria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhodes", "label": "Rhodes", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "parthia", "label": "Parthia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bactria", "label": "Bactria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "herat", "label": "Herat", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "silk-road", "label": "Silk Road", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "antiochus-iv-epiphanes", "label": "Antiochus IV Epiphanes", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seneca-the-younger", "label": "Seneca the Younger", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -434, "year_label": "435 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic poet (d. 380 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172915#Births", "title": "435 BC", "revid": 1354172915, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -379, "year_label": "380 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Philoxenus of Cythera, Greek dithyrambic poet (b. 435 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372504979#Deaths", "title": "380 BC", "revid": 1372504979, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -169, "year_label": "170 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Dionysios Thrax, a Hellenic grammarian who will live and work in Alexandria and later on Rhodes (d. 90 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1289094585#Births", "title": "170 BC", "revid": 1289094585, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -168, "year_label": "169 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Perseus asks the Seleucid King Antiochus IV to join forces with him against the danger that Rome presents to all of the Hellenic monarchs. Antiochus IV does not respond.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360213483#Greece", "title": "169 BC", "revid": 1360213483, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -166, "year_label": "167 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Parthians capture the key central Asian city of Herat. This victory effectively chokes off the movement of trade along the Silk Road to China and means that the Hellenic kingdom of Bactria is doomed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340086150#Parthia", "title": "167 BC", "revid": 1340086150, "section": "Events › By place › Parthia"}}, {"year": -161, "year_label": "162 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Maccabees, under the leadership of Judas Maccabeus, continue their struggle against the Seleucids and persecute the Hellenising faction in Judea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370480795#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "162 BC", "revid": 1370480795, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -160, "year_label": "161 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "With the restoration of peace in Judea, an internal struggle breaks out between the supporters of Judas Maccabeus and the Hellenic party. The influence of the Hellenic Party all but collapses in the wake of the Seleucid defeat.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311856799#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "161 BC", "revid": 1311856799, "section": "Events › by side › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": 40, "year_label": "40 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Caligula reforms the principatus into a Hellenistic Autocracy. He distributes honors carelessly, declares himself a god and orders that all the heads of the Greek deity statues be replaced by his. He also appoints his horse, Incitatus, to the Senate.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_40", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 40"}}, {"year": 62, "year_label": "62 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "After the death of Burrus and the disgrace of Seneca, Nero is free from their influence and becomes a megalomaniacal artist fascinated by Hellenism and the Orient. Tigellinus becomes Nero's counselor. His rule is highly abusive.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363561412#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 62", "revid": 1363561412, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}