Clinias
Family: Sicyonian · Role: father of Aratus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 7
The people drove out Euthydemus and Timoclidas and installed Clinias, father of Aratus, in power. Clinias built a gymnasium where boys continued to be educated. After his death, Abantidas seized the chief power.
Relationship record
Life events
- The people expelled Euthydemus and Timoclidas and installed Clinias in power.(Book 2 · Chapter 8)
- With: Euthydemus Timoclidas
- “These the people afterwards drove out, and put in their place Clinias the father of Aratus:”
- Abantidas seized the chief power after Clinias died.(Book 2 · Chapter 8)
- With: Abantidas
- “and not many years afterwards Abantidas got the chief power, (after the death of Clinias),”
- Clinias built the gymnasium where boys continued to receive education.(Book 2 · Chapter 10 · 📍 gymnasium)
- “Clinias built this gymnasium, and they educate boys there still.”
Book 2 · Chapter 7
- child: Aratus the son of Clinias (Clinias is identified as Aratus's father.) “the person represented on the stage-curtain is, they say, Aratus the son of Clinias.”
Book 2 · Chapter 8
- child: Aratus the son of Clinias “These the people afterwards drove out, and put in their place Clinias the father of Aratus”
- with Abantidas (Abantidas succeeded to power after Clinias's death.) “and not many years afterwards Abantidas got the chief power, (after the death of Clinias)”
Book 6 · Chapter 12
- child: Aratus the son of Clinias “Aratus the son of Clinias”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.