{"slug": "nicias", "label": "Nicias", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicias", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315822", "qid": "Q315822", "description": "5th c. BCE Athenian politician and general, son of Niceratus", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [-425, -412], "span_label": ["426 BCE", "413 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "alcibiades", "label": "Alcibiades", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "argos-peloponnese", "label": "Argos, Peloponnese", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "boeotia", "label": "Boeotia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "strategos", "label": "Strategos", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-elis", "label": "Ancient Elis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"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": -423, "year_label": "424 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Nicias captures the Peloponnesian island of Cythera, from which to harry the Spartans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1231841566#Greece", "title": "424 BC", "revid": 1231841566, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -422, "year_label": "423 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Brasidas ignores the proposed year-long truce and proceeds to take Scione and Mende in the hope of reaching Athens and freeing Spartan prisoners. Athens sends reinforcements under Nicias who retakes Mende.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360180006#Greece", "title": "423 BC", "revid": 1360180006, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -419, "year_label": "420 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The young and popular Alcibiades is elected \"Strategos\" (one of a board of ten generals) and begins to dominate Athenian life and politics. A Quadruple Alliance of Athens, Argos, Mantineia and Elis, which has been organised by Alcibiades (in opposition to Nicias) confronts a Spartan-Boeotian alliance.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360316147#Greece", "title": "420 BC", "revid": 1360316147, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"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"}}, {"year": -414, "year_label": "415 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian expedition to Sicily sets sail under Nicias, Lamachus and Alcibiades. After his departure with the armada, Alcibiades is accused of profanity and is recalled to Athens to stand trial.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300115968#Greece", "title": "415 BC", "revid": 1300115968, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -413, "year_label": "414 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Athens responds to appeals from its general, Nicias, by sending out 73 vessels to Sicily under the command of Demosthenes to assist Nicias and his forces with the siege of Syracuse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305139821#Greece", "title": "414 BC", "revid": 1305139821, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -412, "year_label": "413 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Nicias, Athenian soldier and statesman (b. 470 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353493943#Deaths", "title": "413 BC", "revid": 1353493943, "section": "Deaths"}}]}