Cleon

Family: Halicarnassian · Role: speechwriter · First appears: Pericles

Life events

Nicias resigned his command at Pylos, provoking Cleon to assume it.(Nicias · 📍 Pylos)
- With: Nicias
- “And Nicias standing up resigned his command at Pylos to him, and bade him take what forces he pleased along with him”
Nicias transferred the fleet, troops, weapons, and entire command to Cleon.(Comparison of Crassus with Nicias)
- With: Nicias
- “Nicias, reserving himself for trifling expeditions against Minoa and Cythera, and the miserable Melians, if there be occasion to come to blows with the Lacedaemonians, slips off his general's cloak and hands over to the unskillfulness and rashness of Cleon, fleet, men, and arms, and the whole command, where the utmost possible skill was called for.”

enemies with Pericles “Cleon, also, already was among his assailants, making use of the feeling against him as a step to the leadership of the people”

enemies with Nicias “for, being his enemy, and observing him to be extremely solicitous to support the offers of the Lacedaemonians”
rivals with Nicias “who set him up for their bulwark against the presumption and insolence of Cleon”

patron: Nicias (Nicias enabled Cleon's rise to command.) “Yet Nicias, by his connivance, raised Cleon, a fellow remarkable for nothing but his loud voice and brazen face, to the command of an army.”
with Nicias (Nicias handed military forces and command to Cleon.) “Nicias, reserving himself for trifling expeditions against Minoa and Cythera, and the miserable Melians, if there be occasion to come to blows with the Lacedaemonians, slips off his general's cloak and hands over to the unskillfulness and rashness of Cleon, fleet, men, and arms, and the whole command, where the utmost possible skill was called for.”

with Lysander (interaction) “all oration, composed by Cleon the Halicarnassean, but to have been spoken by Lysander in a public assembly”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.