{"slug": "mytilene", "label": "Mytilene", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mytilene", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189059", "qid": "Q189059", "description": "city on the Greek island of Lesbos", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-498, 821], "span_label": ["499 BCE", "821 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "peloponnesus", "label": "Peloponnesus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cleon", "label": "Cleon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lesbos", "label": "Lesbos", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thrasybulus", "label": "Thrasybulus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "asia-minor", "label": "Asia Minor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "miletus", "label": "Miletus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alcibiades", "label": "Alcibiades", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "samos", "label": "Samos", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -498, "year_label": "499 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After a failed attack on the rebellious island of Naxos in c. 501 BC (on behalf of the Persians), Aristagoras, tyrant of Miletus, to save himself from the wrath of Persia, plans a revolt with the Milesians and the other Ionians. With the encouragement of Histiaeus (his father-in-law and former tyrant of Miletus), Aristagoras induces the Ionian cities of Asia Minor to revolt against Persia, thus instigating the Ionian Revolt and beginning the Greco-Persian Wars between Greece and Persia. The pro-Persian tyrant of Mytilene is stoned to death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129380#Greece", "title": "499 BC", "revid": 1350129380, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -427, "year_label": "428 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The chief city of Lesbos, Mytilene, revolts against Athenian rule. The Spartan admiral, Alcidas, leads 40 Peloponnesian alliance ships with the aim of assisting the inhabitants of Mytilene. However, the rebellion by Mytilene is crushed before his forces can arrive.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1151725633#Greece", "title": "428 BC", "revid": 1151725633, "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": -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": -387, "year_label": "388 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian general, Thrasybulus, sails to Lesbos, where, with the support of the Mytileneans, he defeats the Spartan forces on the island and wins over a number of cities. While still on Lesbos, however, Thrasybulus is killed by raiders from the city of Aspendus where his financial exactions have made him unpopular.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210249612#Greece", "title": "388 BC", "revid": 1210249612, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": 151, "year_label": "151 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Mytilene and Smyrna are destroyed by an earthquake.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367877886#Asia", "title": "AD 151", "revid": 1367877886, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 821, "year_label": "821 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 7", "text": "April 7 – George the Standard-Bearer, archbishop of Mytilene (b. c. 776)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941313#Deaths", "title": "821", "revid": 1340941313, "section": "Deaths"}}]}