Sphodrias

Family: Lacedaemonian · Role: governor · First appears: Agesilaus

Life events

Agesilaus saved Sphodrias from execution despite his wrongdoing against the Athenians.(Comparison of Pompey and Agesilaus)
- With: Agesilaus
- “Agesilaus, to gratify the fondness of his son, saved the life of Sphodrias by a sort of violence, when he deserved death for the wrong he had done to the Athenians”

child: Cleonymus “This Sphodrias had a son of great beauty named Cleonymus”
enemies with Agesilaus “One Sphodrias, of Lacedaemon, of the contrary faction to Agesilaus”
with Agesilaus (interaction) “Sphodrias's friends ventured to be forward in his defense.”
with Pelopidas (interaction) “It is said, too, that Pelopidas and Melon, the chief captains of Boeotia, put him upon it”
with Melon (interaction) “It is said, too, that Pelopidas and Melon, the chief captains of Boeotia, put him upon it”

parent: Agesilaus (Sphodrias is presented as the son whose interests Agesilaus favored.) “But Agesilaus, to gratify the fondness of his son, saved the life of Sphodrias by a sort of violence, when he deserved death for the wrong he had done to the Athenians;”
with Pompey (Agesilaus intervened to save Sphodrias's life.) “Agesilaus, to gratify the fondness of his son, saved the life of Sphodrias by a sort of violence, when he deserved death for the wrong he had done to the Athenians”

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