Cleander of Sparta

For other people of the same name, see Cleander.

Cleander of Sparta (Greek: Κλέανδρος) was harmost at Byzantium in 400 BC, and promised Cheirisophus to meet the Ten Thousand at Calpe with ships to convey them to Europe. On their reaching that place, however, they found that Cleander had neither come himself nor sent ships; and when he at length arrived, he brought only two triremes, and no transports. Soon after his arrival, a tumult occurred, in which the traitor Dexippus was rather roughly handled, and Cleander, instigated by him, threatened to sail away, to denounce the army as enemies, and to issue orders that no Greek city should receive them. They succeeded, however, in pacifying him by extreme submission, and he entered into a connection of hospitality with Xenophon, and accepted the offer of leading the army home. But he wished probably to avoid the possibility of any hostile collision with Pharnabazus^{[disambiguation needed ]}, and, the sacrifices being declared to be unfavourable for the projected march, he sailed back to Byzantium, promising to give them the best reception in his power on their arrival there. This promise he seems to have kept as effectually as the opposition of the admiral Anaxibius would permit. He was succeeded in his government by Aristarchus.

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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).