Ambleside online plutarch

Philopoemen was born in 253 BCE in Megalopolis, one of the largest cities in Arcadia, a region of the Peloponnese and a member state of the Achaean League. His father, Craugis, died when Philopoemen was a child, so his care was entrusted to Cleander, a friend of his father and an exile from Mantineia. The boy was educated by