{"slug": "timotheus-general", "label": "Timotheus (general)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timotheus_%28general%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q713679", "qid": "Q713679", "description": "Greek statesman and general (410–353 B.C.)", "entries": 8, "years": 6, "span": [-377, -353], "span_label": ["378 BCE", "354 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "iphicrates", "label": "Iphicrates", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "thessaly", "label": "Thessaly", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "philip-ii-of-macedon", "label": "Philip II of Macedon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "acarnania", "label": "Acarnania", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "conon", "label": "Conon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "amphipolis", "label": "Amphipolis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "potidaea", "label": "Potidaea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "phrygia", "label": "Phrygia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hellespont", "label": "Hellespont", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -377, "year_label": "378 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Timotheus, the son of the Athenian general Conon, is elected strategos of Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1279678779#Greece", "title": "378 BC", "revid": 1279678779, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -376, "year_label": "377 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Timotheus wins over the Acarnanians and Molossians as friends of Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1328334796#Greece", "title": "377 BC", "revid": 1328334796, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -373, "year_label": "374 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Sparta attacks Corcyra, enlisting Syracusan help. Athens comes to the island's aid. The Athenian general, Timotheus, captures Corcyra and defeats the Spartans at sea off Alyzia (Acarnania).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367114817#Greece", "title": "374 BC", "revid": 1367114817, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -364, "year_label": "365 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian forces under general Timotheus overrun Samos, then occupied by a Persian garrison, after a 10-month siege.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1211340613#Greece", "title": "365 BC", "revid": 1211340613, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -355, "year_label": "356 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Chares is given sole command of the Athenian fleet and withdraws to the Hellespont to move against Byzantium. The generals Timotheus, Iphicrates and his son Menestheus are sent with 60 ships to help him when the enemy fleet is sighted on the Hellespont. Timotheus and Iphicrates refuse to engage due to a severe gale, but Chares does engage and lose many of his ships. Timotheus and Iphicrates are accused by Chares and put on trial, however only Timotheus is condemned to pay a fine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343819365#Greece", "title": "356 BC", "revid": 1343819365, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -355, "year_label": "356 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Philip II of Macedon secretly offers the city of Amphipolis back to the Athenians in exchange for the valuable port of Pydna. Despite the Athenians being willing to comply, both Pydna and Potidaea are conquered by the Macedonians (along with other Athenian strongholds in Thessaly and Chalcidice) despite being defended by Athenian forces led by general and mercenary commander, Chares, as well as generals Iphicrates and Timotheus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343819365#Greece", "title": "356 BC", "revid": 1343819365, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -355, "year_label": "356 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Having blamed their defeats to Philip II in Thessaly and Chalcidice on his colleagues (Iphicrates and Timotheus), Chares is left in sole command of the Athenian fleet. Chares, in need of money for his war effort, frowns upon asking it from Athens, so, partly compelled by his mercenaries, he enters the service of the insurgent Achaemenid satrap of Phrygia Artabazus who rewards Chares very generously.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343819365#Persian_Empire", "title": "356 BC", "revid": 1343819365, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}, {"year": -353, "year_label": "354 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Timotheus, Athenian statesman and general", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291610084#Deaths", "title": "354 BC", "revid": 1291610084, "section": "Deaths"}}]}