Cleopompus
Family: Athenian · Role: commander · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 5
In Book 2, Section 6, Cleopompus, son of Clinias, was in command. About the same time, he captured Thronium and took hostages, then defeated the Locrians assembled to resist him at Alope.
The same summer, Cleopompus and Hagnon—colleagues of Pericles—led an expedition against the Chalcidians and went to Potidæa, which was still under siege. They failed to capture it.
Relationship record
Life events
- Cleopompus captured Thronium and took hostages from it.(Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 5 · 📍 Thronium)
- “captured Thronium and took hostages from it.”
- Cleopompus defeated the Locrians assembled to resist him.(Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 5 · 📍 Alope)
- “He also defeated at Alope the Locrians that had assembled to resist him.”
- Hagnon and Cleopompus led an expedition against the Chalcidians and besieged Potidæa, but failed to capture it.(Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 2 · 📍 Potidæa)
- With: Hagnon
- “The same summer Hagnon, son of Nicias, and Cleopompus, son of Clinias, the colleagues of Pericles, took the armament of which he had lately made use, and went off upon an expedition against the Chalcidians in the direction of Thrace and Potidæa, which was still under siege.”
Book 2 · Chapter 6 · Part 5
- parent: Clinias, father of Cleopompus “Cleopompus, son of Clinias, being in command.”
Book 2 · Chapter 7 · Part 2
- with Pericles (Colleagues) “The same summer Hagnon, son of Nicias, and Cleopompus, son of Clinias, the colleagues of Pericles, took the armament of which he had lately made use, and went off upon an expedition against the Chalcidians in the direction of Thrace and Potidæa, which was still under siege.”
- parent: Clinias, father of Cleopompus “The same summer Hagnon, son of Nicias, and Cleopompus, son of Clinias, the colleagues of Pericles, took the armament of which he had lately made use, and went off upon an expedition against the Chalcidians in the direction of Thrace and Potidæa, which was still under siege.”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.