{"slug": "athena", "label": "Athena", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37122", "qid": "Q37122", "description": "goddess of wisdom and war in ancient Greek religion and mythology", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [-579, 1687], "span_label": ["580 BCE", "1687 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Athena Nike"], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "acropolis", "label": "Acropolis", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "parthenon", "label": "Parthenon", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "phidias", "label": "Phidias", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republic-of-venice", "label": "Republic of Venice", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "morean-war", "label": "Morean War", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pericles", "label": "Pericles", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "demetrius-i-poliorcetes", "label": "Demetrius I Poliorcetes", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -579, "year_label": "580 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "c. 580 BC—The Hecatompedon, a temple dedicated to Athena in Athens, was built at the site later used for the Parthenon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368110656#Events_and_trends", "title": "580s BC", "revid": 1368110656, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -455, "year_label": "456 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The first of the Athenian sculptor Phidias' monuments to Athena, the bronze Athena Promachos, is placed on the Athenian Acropolis, measuring about 9 metres high.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1000478716#Greece", "title": "456 BC", "revid": 1000478716, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -448, "year_label": "449 BCE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Pericles places the Athenian sculptor Phidias in charge of all the artistic aspects of his reconstruction program. Construction begins on the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, while the Athenian Senate commissions Callicrates to construct a temple to Athena Nike on the Acropolis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1309703382#Greece", "title": "449 BC", "revid": 1309703382, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -446, "year_label": "447 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Pericles commissions the architects Kallikrates and Iktinos to design a larger temple for the Parthenon and the construction begins on rebuilding the great temple of Athena (the Parthenon) on the Acropolis at Athens soon afterwards.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1196799197#Architecture", "title": "447 BC", "revid": 1196799197, "section": "Events › By subject › Architecture"}}, {"year": -437, "year_label": "438 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Parthenon on the Acropolis at Athens is completed by Ictinus and Callicrates and is consecrated after 9 years of construction. It is dedicated at the Panathenaea (a festival held in honour of Athena every four years on the Acropolis).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326570904#Greece", "title": "438 BC", "revid": 1326570904, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -430, "year_label": "431 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Phidias returns to Athens, where he is imprisoned (for having been portrayed on the shield of the statue of the goddess Athena) and dies before the trial.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364036128#Deaths", "title": "431 BC", "revid": 1364036128, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -423, "year_label": "424 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The temple to Athena Nike (also known as the Wingless Victory) on the Athenian Acropolis is completed. It has been designed by the Athenian architect Callicrates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1231841566#Architecture", "title": "424 BC", "revid": 1231841566, "section": "Events › By topic › Architecture"}}, {"year": -303, "year_label": "304 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demetrius Poliorcetes invades mainland Greece for Asia-Minor, drives Cassander out of central Greece and liberates Athens. In return, the Athenians bestow on him a new religious honour, synnaos (meaning \"having the same temple\") of the temple of the goddess Athena.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355692793#Greece", "title": "304 BC", "revid": 1355692793, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": 1687, "year_label": "1687 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 26", "text": "September 26 – Half of the Parthenon is destroyed in Athens after mortar shells are fired by Republic of Venice forces under the command of Francesco Morosini in a battle against the Ottoman Empire for control of the city. The strike ignites a stock of gunpowder that the Ottomans had stored inside the 2,200-year-old temple, which had been completed in 438 BC as a shrine to the goddess Athena. During the fighting September 23 and September 29 for control of the Acropolis in the Morean War, the Temple of Athena Nike is demolished and the Propylaea suffers damage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363302904#July–September", "title": "1687", "revid": 1363302904, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}