# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cleombrotus-of-ambracia
# Generated: 2026-08-16T09:20:12.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cleombrotus-of-ambracia"
name: "Cleombrotus of Ambracia"
slug: "cleombrotus-of-ambracia"
description: "Cleombrotus is a young man mentioned in Plato's Phaedo as one of two young men notably absent when Socrates drank the hemlock. This is his only mention in Plato, but a later tradition added that he was from Ambracia; Callimachus explains that Cleombrotus committed suicide in a way that caused a debate still held in the time of Michel de Montaigne—whether his suicide, leaping into the ocean to enter the life of the spirits after reading the Phaedo, was foolish or not.\nAs translated by Henry William Tytler, Callimachus's epigram reads:"
tagline: "Committed suicide after reading Plato, and/or an absent figure in the Phaedo"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-500"
deathDate: "-400"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.82
  momentum:             2.789115646258503
  historical:           7.206768
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%90%D0%BC%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B8"
    title: "Клеомброт из Амбракии"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleombrotos_von_Ambrakia"
    title: "Kleombrotos von Ambrakia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleombrotus_of_Ambracia"
    title: "Cleombrotus of Ambracia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleombrotos_Ambrakialainen"
    title: "Kleombrotos Ambrakialainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9ombrote_d'Ambracie"
    title: "Cléombrote d'Ambracie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleombroto_d'Ambracia"
    title: "Cleombroto d'Ambracia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AD%E3%82%A2%E3%81%AE%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%83%88%E3%82%B9"
    title: "アンブラキアのクレオンブロトス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theombrotus_Ambraciotes"
    title: "Theombrotus Ambraciotes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1774128"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump