Gylippus
Family: Spartan · Role: army commander · First appears: Pericles
Gylippus, a Spartan army commander, was the son of Cleandrides, who had overpowered the Athenians in Sicily. His covetousness was described as an inherited vice, “transmitted from father to son,” and in Sicily he led his men against Nicias and the Athenians while Gongylus told them that Gylippus would soon arrive with relief.
Later, Lysander sent one thousand talents to Sparta by Gylippus, who embezzled thirty and hid them under the tiles of his house. The Syracusans eventually sent him home dishonorably, his reputation ruined by “the unsatiable covetousness he displayed.”
Relationship record
Life events
- Gylippus was sent home dishonorably after his reputation was ruined by covetousness.(Comparison of Timoleon with Aemilius Paulus)
- “the Syracusans sent even Gylippus home dishonorably, and with a reputation lost by the unsatiable covetousness he displayed”
Pericles
- parent: Cleandrides “This was the father of Gylippus, who overpowered the Athenians in Sicily.”
- with Cleandrides (interaction) “And it seems that this covetousness was an hereditary disease transmitted from father to son; for Gylippus also afterwards was caught in foul practices”
Comparison of Timoleon with Aemilius Paulus
- with Timaeus (Timaeus writes about Gylippus's conduct.) “Timaeus writes, that the Syracusans sent even Gylippus home dishonorably, and with a reputation lost by the unsatiable covetousness he displayed when he commanded the army”
Lysander
- with Lysander (interaction) “he sends to Lacedaemon by Gylippus, who had commanded formerly in Sicily”
Nicias
- enemies with Nicias “Gylippus at once led on his men from their march in battle array against the Athenians, as Nicias also embattled these”
- parent: Cleandrides “vices which may have descended to him from his father Cleandrides”
- with Lysander (interaction) “of the one thousand talents which Lysander sent to Sparta, embezzled thirty, and hid them under the tiles of his house”
- with Gongylus (interaction) “he told them that Gylippus would be with them speedily, and that other ships were coming to relieve them”
- child: Cleandrides “vices which may have descended to him from his father Cleandrides”
- enemies with Demosthenes “Timaeus says that Demosthenes and Nicias did not die, as Thucydides and Philistus have written, by the order of the Syracusans”
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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.