Pausanias' Description of Greece

Cleander

Family: Mantinea · Role: guardian of Philopœmen · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 49

Life events

  • Craugis dies, and Cleander becomes guardian of the young Philopœmen.(Book 8 · Chapter 49)
    • With: Craugis Philopœmen
    • “but he dying when Philopœmen was quite a boy his guardian was Cleander”

Book 8 · Chapter 49

  • ward: Philopœmen “but he dying when Philopœmen was quite a boy his guardian was Cleander an exile from Mantinea, who had come to live at Megalopolis after the troubles in his native place, and had been on a footing of old friendship with the family of Craugis”
  • friends with Craugis “had been on a footing of old friendship with the family of Craugis”

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