{"slug": "oligarchy", "label": "Oligarchy", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79751", "qid": "Q79751", "description": "power structure in which power rests with a small number of people", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-446, -324], "span_label": ["447 BCE", "325 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "boeotia", "label": "Boeotia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "corfu", "label": "Corfu", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "thebes-greece", "label": "Thebes, Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pericles", "label": "Pericles", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "miletus", "label": "Miletus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "samos", "label": "Samos", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "delian-league", "label": "Delian League", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "peloponnesian-league", "label": "Peloponnesian League", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "peloponnesian-war", "label": "Peloponnesian War", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "attica", "label": "Attica", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -446, "year_label": "447 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A revolt breaks out in Boeotia as the oligarchs of Thebes conspire against the democratic faction in the city. The Athenians, under their general Tolmides, with 1000 hoplites plus other troops from their allies, march into Boeotia to take back the towns revolting against Athenian control. They capture Chaeronea, but are attacked and defeated by the Boeotians at Coronea. As a result, the Athenians are forced to give up control of Boeotia as well as Phocis and Locris, which all fall under the control of hostile oligarchs who quit the Delian League.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1196799197#Greece", "title": "447 BC", "revid": 1196799197, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -439, "year_label": "440 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Samos, an autonomous member of the Delian League and one of Athens' principal allies with a substantial fleet of its own, quarrels with Miletus. Miletus, also a member of the Delian League, appeals to Athens for assistance. Pericles decides in favour of Miletus, so Samos revolts. Pericles then sails to Samos with a fleet to overthrow its oligarchic government and install a democratic one. Sparta threatens to interfere. However, at a congress of the Peloponnesian League, its members vote not to intervene on behalf of Samos against Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242238578#Greece", "title": "440 BC", "revid": 1242238578, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -434, "year_label": "435 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "A dispute arises between Epidamnus' oligarchs and democratic forces in the Greek colony. Most of the colony's inhabitants originate from Corinth or Corcyra (Corfu). Epidamnus' oligarchs are exiled and then appeal to Corcyra for help, while the democrats enlist the support of Corinth. Corcyra is then attacked by Corinth as the dispute heats up.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172915#Greece", "title": "435 BC", "revid": 1354172915, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -410, "year_label": "411 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 9", "text": "June 9 – The democracy of Athens is overthrown by the oligarchic extremists, Antiphon, Theramenes, Peisander and Phrynichus in an effort by the oligarchists to exert more control over the conduct of the war with Sparta and its allies. A \"Council of Four Hundred\" is set up. The total defeat of the Athenian expedition to Sicily and the consequent revolts of many of the subject-allies has weakened Athenian finances severely; the acknowledged purpose of the revolutionary movement is to revise the constitution to better run Athens' finances. However, its rule is high-handed and the Council of Four Hundred is only able to maintain itself for four months.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210116731#Greece", "title": "411 BC", "revid": 1210116731, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -409, "year_label": "410 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "An Oligarchic revolt in Corcyra is unsuccessful.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1239404382#Greece", "title": "410 BC", "revid": 1239404382, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -402, "year_label": "403 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Thrasybulus leads the democratic resistance to the new oligarchic government, known as the Thirty Tyrants, that the victorious Spartans have imposed on Athens. He commands a small force of exiles that invades Attica and, in successive battles, defeats first a Spartan garrison and then the forces of the oligarchic government (which includes the Spartan general, Lysander) in the Battle of Munychia. The leader of the Thirty Tyrants, Critias, is killed in the battle.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1246106639#Greece", "title": "403 BC", "revid": 1246106639, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -324, "year_label": "325 BCE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Agathocles, a rich and ambitious citizen of Syracuse, is exiled for attempting to overthrow the oligarchic party in the city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372590647#Sicily", "title": "325 BC", "revid": 1372590647, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}]}