Kleandridas

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Kleandridas ( Greek  Κλεανδρίδας ) lived as a Spartiate in the 5th century BC. In ancient Greece. He was the father of the influential Gylippos . Polyainos dedicates a small chapter in his Strategika to him about a failed conquest of Terina , three battles won against Lucania , his campaign against Tegea , where he brought the aristocrats back to power, and his advisory work for Thurioi . As a military advisor, he moved with the younger Pleistoanax in 446 BC. Against Athens. He was accused of bribery by the Athenians by Sparta together with Pleistoanax because of the peace agreement with Perikles and sentenced to death, but was able to escape and spent the rest of his life in 444/443 newly founded Lower Italian Thurioi.

There may be another Kleandridas , but this is speculation. If he existed, he was also a Spartiate, possibly a son of Gylippus, a descendant of Kleandridas above, then he lived in the 4th century BC. And, exiled from Sparta, took part in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC. On the side of the Thebans against the Spartans. Otherwise not known, his name is uncertain, in Diodorus he is perhaps mistakenly called Leandrias.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thucydides 6.93.
  2. ↑ Polyainos, Strategika 2,10.
  3. ↑ Plutarch , Pericles 22.
  4. ↑ Diodorus 13,106,10; Diodorus is probably mistakenly calling Kleandridas by the name Klearchus.
  5. ↑ Diodorus 15,54,1
  6. ↑ Diodorus 15,54,1; on the problem see Pauly-Wissowa-Realenzyklopädie under the keyword: Leandrias.
personal data
SURNAME Kleandridas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spartan military
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.