Cleon [SEP] sex or gender
, subsequent death.
Cleon's ruling principles were an inveterate hatred of the nobility, and an equal hatred of Sparta. It was mainly through him that the opportunity of concluding an honourable peace (in 425 BC) was lost, and in his determination to see Sparta humbled he misled the people as to the extent of the resources of the state, and dazzled them by promises of future benefits.
In 427 BC, Cleon urged his Athenian countrymen to put to death the whole adult male population of Mytilene, which
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