Cleippides

Family: Athenian · Role: commander · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 1

In Book 3, Section 9, Cleippides, son of Deinias, was one of three commanders sent with forty Athenian ships toward Mitylene. When the Mitylenians refused the generals’ orders, the Athenians commenced hostilities.

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Life events

• The Athenians sent forty ships under Cleippides and two others toward Mitylene.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 1)
  • With: Deinias
  • “They accordingly suddenly sent off forty ships that had been got ready to sail round Peloponnese, under the command of Cleippides, son of Deinias, and two others;”
• Cleippides's Athenian ships began hostilities after the Mitylenians refused their orders.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 1 · 📍 Mitylene)
  • “When the Athenians sailed in not long after and saw how things stood, the generals delivered their orders, and upon the Mitylenians refusing to obey, commenced hostilities.”

Book 3 · Chapter 9 · Part 1

• with Deinias (Father and son.) “under the command of Cleippides, son of Deinias, and two others”
• parent: Deinias “under the command of Cleippides, son of Deinias, and two others”

Also listed in Athenian — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.