Cleandridas

Cleandridas (Greek Κλεανδρίδας ) lived as Spartiate in the 5th century BC in ancient Greece. He was the father of the influential Gylippus. Polyainos has devoted a small chapter in his Strategika over a failed conquest of Terina, three battles won against Lucania, his campaign against Tegea, where he brought the aristocrats back to power, and his consultancy work for Thurii. As a military advisor, he moved with the younger Pleistoanax 446 BC against Athens. He was accused of Sparta along with Pleistoanax because of the peace treaty with Pericles of bribery by the Athenians and sentenced to death, but managed to escape and spent the rest of his life in 444/443 newly founded southern Italian Thurii.

There might be another Cleandridas, but this is speculation. If it was him, he was also a Spartiate, possibly a son of Gylippus, ie a descendant of Cleandridas above, then he lived in the 4th century BC and participated banished from Sparta, at the Battle of Leuctra 371 v. AD on the side of Thebes against the Spartans. Otherwise not known, his name is uncertain, in Diodorus he might mistakenly called Leandrias.