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Cleinias (Ancient Greek: Κλεινίας), father of Alcibiades, brother of Axiochus, and member of the Alcmaeonidae family, was an Athenian who married Deinomache, the daughter of Megacles, and became the father of the famous Alcibiades. Plutarch tells us that he traced his family line back to Eurysaces, the son of Telamonian Ajax.
These, Cleinias and Megillus, are the reproaches which we have to make against statesmen and legislators, as they are called, past and present, if we would analyse the causes of their failure, and find out what else might have been done.
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Euthydemus. By Plato. Written 380 B.C.E. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Persons of the Dialogue. SOCRATES, who is the narrator. CRITO. CLEINIAS. EUTHYDEMUS.
Book 1. Persons in the dialogue: Athenian Stranger, Cleinias, Megillus. 624A Athenian Stranger: Well, my friends, was it a god or some human who was responsible for establishing your laws? Cleinias: A god, my friend, yes, that’s the fairest answer.
Persons in the dialogue: Athenian Stranger, Cleinias, Megillus. 624A Athenian Stranger: Well, my friends, was it a god or some human who was responsible for establishing your laws? Cleinias: A god, my friend, yes, that’s the fairest answer. Among ourselves, in Crete, it was Zeus, while among the Spartans, where this man comes from, I think ...
Athenian Stranger. Tell me, Strangers, is a God or some man supposed to be the author of your laws? Cleinias. A God, Stranger; in very truth a, God: among us Cretans he is said to have been Zeus, but in Lacedaemon, whence our friend here comes, I believe they would say that Apollo is their lawgiver: would they not, Megillus? Megillus. Certainly.
The Cleinias Decree, [ 1] formerly dated in the twenties, [ 2] is now conventionally set in the early forties (c. 447) primarily because a subsequently discovered fragment discloses that the name of the man who proposed this decree was Cleinias, [ 3] so that the inference is made that he is one and the same as the famous Cleinias, the father of ...
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