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'''Gylippus''' was a [[Sparta]]n general of the [[5th century BC]]; he was the son of [[Cleandridas]], who had been expelled from Sparta for accepting [[Athens|Athenian]] bribes in [[446 BC]] and had settled at Thurii. His mother may have been a [[helots|helot]]. When [[Alcibiades]] urged the Spartans to send a general to lead the [[Syracusan]] resistance against the [[Sicilian Expedition|Athenian expedition]], Gylippus was appointed ([[414 BC]]), and his arrival was a turning point of the struggle. More daring than [[Nicias]], the Athenian commander he faced, he was able to gain an upper hand by driving the Athenians from key strategic locations and essentially break the siege. When Athens sent Demosthenes with reinforcements, he too was defeated by Gylippus, which ultimately lead to the downfall of the Athenian campaign in Syracuse.

[[Diodorus]], probably following [[Timaeus]], represents him as inducing the Syracusans to pass sentence of death on the captive Athenian generals, but there is also the statement of Philistus ([[Plutarch]], Nicias, 28), a Syracusan who himself took part in the defence, and [[Thucydides]] (vii. 86), that he tried, though without success, to save their lives, wishing to take them to Sparta as a signal proof of his success.

Gylippus, like his father, met his downfall in a financial scandal; entrusted by [[Lysander]] with an immense sum which he was to deliver to the [[ephor]]s at Sparta, he could not resist the temptation to enrich himself and, on discovery, went into exile, having been condemned to death in his absence.

==External links==
*[http://www.livius.org Livius], [http://www.livius.org/gs-gz/gylippus/gylippus.html Gylippus] by Jona Lendering

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