Plutarch's Lives

Euclidas

Family: Lacedaemon · Role: commander · First appears: Philopoemen

Life events

  • Antigonus defeated Cleomenes, destroyed Euclidas’s wing, and forced Cleomenes to abandon Sparta.(Cleomenes · 📍 Sellasia)
    • With: Antigonus Cleomenes
    • “immediately after the battle in Sellasia was over, and Cleomenes had lost his army and his city”

Philopoemen

  • siblings with Cleomenes “Euclidas, the brother of Cleomenes, seeing the foot thus severed from the horse, detached the best of his light-armed men,”

Cleomenes

  • with Cleomenes (interaction) “Euclidas, Cleomenes's brother, commanded”

Comparison of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus with Agis and Cleomenes

  • siblings with Cleomenes “On the contrary, Cleomenes (not to mention the murder of the Ephors) set all the slaves at liberty, and governed by himself alone in reality, having a partner only for show; having made choice of his brother Euclidas, who was one of the same family.”

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