{"slug": "cimon", "label": "Cimon", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimon", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q218102", "qid": "Q218102", "description": "Athenian statesman", "entries": 14, "years": 13, "span": [-509, -448], "span_label": ["510 BCE", "449 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Kimon"], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 11}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "delian-league", "label": "Delian League", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "pericles", "label": "Pericles", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "cyprus", "label": "Cyprus", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "aegean-sea", "label": "Aegean Sea", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "aristides", "label": "Aristides", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "phoenicia", "label": "Phoenicia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "egypt", "label": "Egypt", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "nile-delta", "label": "Nile Delta", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "bosporus", "label": "Bosporus", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -509, "year_label": "510 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Cimon, Athenian statesman and strategos (d. 450 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129120#Births", "title": "510 BC", "revid": 1350129120, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -477, "year_label": "478 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "With the help of the Athenian statesman and general, Cimon, Aristides commands an Athenian fleet of 30 ships that the Spartan commander Pausanias leads to capture the Greek cities on Cyprus and Byzantium, taking them from the Persians and their Phoenician allies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129370#Greece", "title": "478 BC", "revid": 1350129370, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -476, "year_label": "477 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Greek maritime cities around the Aegean Sea no longer wish to be under Spartan control and at Delos offer their allegiance, through Aristides, to Athens. They form the Delian League (also known as the Confederacy of Delos) with Cimon as their principal commander.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129381#Greece", "title": "477 BC", "revid": 1350129381, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -475, "year_label": "476 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Cimon of Athens increases his power at the expense of Themistocles. He ousts Pausanias and the Spartans from the area around the Bosporus. The Spartans, hearing that Pausanias is intriguing with the Persians, recall him and he is \"disciplined\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129376#Greece", "title": "476 BC", "revid": 1350129376, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -474, "year_label": "475 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cimon leads an Athenian attack on the island of Skyros and expels the indigenous inhabitants who are regarded as pirates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129359#Greece", "title": "475 BC", "revid": 1350129359, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -465, "year_label": "466 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cimon carries the war against Persia into Asia Minor and wins the Battle of the Eurymedon in Pamphylia. This is a decisive defeat of the Persians as Cimon's land and sea forces capture the Persian camp and destroy or capture the entire Persian fleet of 200 triremes (manned by Phoenicians). Many new allies of Athens are now recruited, such as the trading city of Phaselis on the Lycian-Pamphylian border.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129366#Greece", "title": "466 BC", "revid": 1350129366, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -464, "year_label": "465 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Thasos revolts from the Delian League. The revolt arises from rivalry over trade with the Thracian hinterland and, in particular, over the ownership of a gold mine. Athens under Kimon lays siege to Thasos after the Athenian fleet defeats the Thasos fleet", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1094347891#Greece", "title": "465 BC", "revid": 1094347891, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -462, "year_label": "463 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "In Athens, the democratic statesman Ephialtes and the young Pericles attempt to get the oligarchic Kimon ostracized for allegedly receiving bribes. Kimon is charged by Pericles and other democratic politicians with having been bribed not to attack the King of Macedonia (who may have been suspected of covertly helping the Thasian rebels). Though Kimon is acquitted, his influence on the Athenian people is waning.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129357#Greece", "title": "463 BC", "revid": 1350129357, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -461, "year_label": "462 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Kimon seeks the support of Athens' citizens providing help to Sparta. Although Ephialtes maintains that Sparta is Athens' rival for power and should be left to fend for itself, Kimon's view prevails. Kimon then leads 4,000 hoplites to Mount Ithome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267837683#Greece", "title": "462 BC", "revid": 1267837683, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -460, "year_label": "461 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "In Athens, Ephialtes and Pericles finally get agreement to the ostracism of Kimon, who had become unpopular for his unsuccessful pro-Spartan policy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1255561808#Greece", "title": "461 BC", "revid": 1255561808, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -450, "year_label": "451 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Persian fleet moves against a rebellious Cyprus to restore order. Kimon, who returns to favour, though not to power, in Athens, plans an expedition to help Cyprus. He gains Pericles' support.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326558217#Greece", "title": "451 BC", "revid": 1326558217, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -449, "year_label": "450 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Athenian general Cimon sails to Cyprus with two hundred triremes of the Delian League. From there, he sends sixty ships to Egypt to help the Egyptians under Amyrtaeus, who are fighting the Persians in the Nile Delta. Cimon uses the remaining ships to aid an uprising of the Cypriot Greek city-states against Persian control of the island. He lays siege to the Persian stronghold of Citium on the southern west coast of Cyprus. However, the siege fails and Cyprus remains under Phoenician (and Persian) control.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172732#Greece", "title": "450 BC", "revid": 1354172732, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -449, "year_label": "450 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Cimon, Athenian statesman and general (b. c. 510 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172732#Deaths", "title": "450 BC", "revid": 1354172732, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -448, "year_label": "449 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Greek city-states make peace with the Persian Empire through the Peace of Callias, named after Callias II, the chief Greek ambassador to the Persian Court, an Athenian who is a brother-in-law of Cimon. Athens agrees to end its support for the Egyptian rebels still holding out in parts of the Nile Delta, while the Persians agree not to send ships of war into the Aegean Sea. Athens now effectively controls all the Greek city states in Ionia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1309703382#Greece", "title": "449 BC", "revid": 1309703382, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}]}