Cleonymus

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: son of Sphodrias · First appears: Book 5, section 4, part 3/5

Sphodrias had a son named Cleonymus. In Book 5, section 4, Archidamus, son of Agesilaus, was passionately attached to him and longed to see his friend, though he did not know how to visit without first speaking with his father. Cleonymus remained faithful to his promise to Archidamus at Leuctra, fighting alongside Deinon in front of the king; he fell after fighting on even as he was struck down.

In Book 6, section 4, Sphodrias and Cleonymus had fallen in battle, after which the cavalry and others began retreating.

Relationship record

Life events

• Cleonymus died fighting alongside Deinon, remaining faithful to his promise to Archidamus.(Book 5, section 4, part 3/5 · 📍 Leuctra)
  • With: Deinon Archidamus
  • “and at Leuctra, fighting in front of the king side by side with Deinon the polemarch, thrice fell or ever he yielded up his breath--foremost of the citizens amidst the foe.”
• Sphodrias and his son Cleonymus fell in battle.(Book 6, section 4, part 2/3)
  • With: Sphodrias
  • “When, however, Deinon the polemarch and Sphodrias, a member of the king's council, with his son Cleonymus, had fallen, then it was that the cavalry and the polemarch's adjutants, as they are called, with the rest, under pressure of the mass against them, began retreating;”

Book 5, section 4, part 3/5

• parent: Sphodrias “Sphodrias had a son named Cleonymus.”
• courtship with Archidamus “To this youth Archidamus, the son of Agesilaus, was passionately attached.”
• friends with Archidamus “Archidamus, on his side, was longing, as was natural, to see his friend Cleonymus; but how he was to visit him, without having held the desired conversation with his father, he knew not.”
• with Deinon (interaction) “and at Leuctra, fighting in front of the king side by side with Deinon the polemarch, thrice fell or ever he yielded up his breath--foremost of the citizens amidst the foe.”

Book 6, section 4, part 2/3

• parent: Sphodrias “Sphodrias, a member of the king's council, with his son Cleonymus, had fallen”

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