MILITARY PERSONNEL

Gylippus

500 BC - 460 BC

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Gylippus (; Greek: Γύλιππος) was a Spartan general (strategos) of the 5th century BC; he was the son of Cleandridas, who was the adviser of King Pleistoanax and had been expelled from Sparta for accepting Athenian bribes in 446 BC and fled to Thurii, a pan-Hellenic colony then being founded in the instep of Italy with Athenian help and participation. His mother may have been a helot, which meant he was not a true Spartiate but a mothax, a man of inferior status. Despite this, from an early childhood he was trained for war in the traditional Spartan fashion and on reaching maturity had been elected to a military mess, his dues contributed by a wealthier Spartiate patron. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gylippus has received more than 75,797 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Gylippus is the 1,114th most popular military personnel (down from 936th in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from Greece (down from 437th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Greek Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Gylippus ranks 1,114 out of 2,058. Before him are Pavel Rotmistrov, Tatya Tope, Thermantia, Charles Mangin, Georgios Grivas, and Mineichi Koga. After him are James Wolfe, August Schmidhuber, Franz Moritz von Lacy, Richard Heidrich, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, and Tadeusz Kutrzeba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 500 BC, Gylippus ranks 63. Before him are Lamachus, Li Kui, Callicratidas, Timon of Athens, Apollodorus, and Praxilla. After him are Stateira, Musaeus of Athens, Inaros II, Thrasybulus of Syracuse, Androtion, and Jason of Pherae. Among people deceased in 460 BC, Gylippus ranks 16. Before him are Telesilla, Sophron, Agatharchus, Calamis, Callimachus, and Apollodorus. After him are Achaemenes, Thrasybulus of Syracuse, Ariobarzanes of Phrygia, and Pharnaces II of Phrygia.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Gylippus ranks 485 out of 1,024. Before him are Ieronymos II of Athens (1938), Hecataeus of Abdera (-400), Demophon of Athens (null), George Dalaras (1949), Porphyry of Gaza (347), and Georgios Tsolakoglou (1886). After him are George of Trebizond (1395), Pelops of Sparta (-210), Haris Alexiou (1950), Paul I of Constantinople (null), Stamata Revithi (1866), and Manuel Kantakouzenos (1326).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Greece

Among military personnels born in Greece, Gylippus ranks 37. Before him are Chabrias (-500), Dimitrios Ioannidis (1923), Clearchus of Sparta (-401), Müezzinzade Ali Pasha (null), Lamachus (-500), and Callicratidas (-500). After him are Leosthenes (-400), Xanthippus of Carthage (-300), Laomedon of Mytilene (-400), Georgios Zoitakis (1910), Athanasios Diakos (1788), and Erigyius (-400).

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