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{{Quote|You think I want to be here? I'd rather be in Sparta, fighting or fucking.|Keleas giving a speech to the ''helots'', 429 BCE|Assassin's Creed: Odyssey|Bully the Bullies}} | |||
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{{Quote|You think I want to be here? I'd rather be in Sparta, fighting or fucking.|Keleas|Assassin's Creed: Odyssey}} | |name = Keleas | ||
'''Keleas''' (died 429 BCE) was | |image = ACOd-Keleas.jpg | ||
|death = 429 BCE<br />[[Krokeai]], [[Lakonia]], [[Greece]] | |||
|species = [[Human]] | |||
|affiliates = [[Spartan army]] | |||
*[[Krypteia]]}} | |||
'''Keleas''' (died 429 BCE) was a [[Sparta]]n soldier who served as a member of the [[krypteia]], an elite unit of the city-state's military. | |||
==Biography== | |||
In 429 BCE, Keleas and two others among his brethren "went rogue", according to King [[Pausanias of Sparta|Pausanias]]. While before they had helped to upkeep the peace between Spartans and the [[Slavery|enslaved]] ''[[helot]]s'', Keleas and his brethren had become brutal, killing helots without mercy or reason and leaving corpses to rot in the streets, as well as stealing livestock. Because of all this, Pausanias charged the ''[[Mercenary|misthios]]'' [[Kassandra]] with getting rid of the rogue ''krypteia''.<ref name="Bully the Bullies">''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'' – [[Bully the Bullies]]</ref> | |||
Described by Pausanias as elusive yet loudest of the three rogue ''krypteia'', Kassandra found Keleas speaking to helots in the village of [[Krokeai]], and slew him.<ref name="Bully the Bullies" /> | Described by Pausanias as elusive yet loudest of the three rogue ''krypteia'', Kassandra found Keleas speaking to helots in the village of [[Krokeai]], and slew him.<ref name="Bully the Bullies" /> | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Kassandra may inspire the helots to revolt by talking to a woman in the crowd and thus interacting with Keleas. Kassandra still has to kill Keleas for the quest to progress. | *Kassandra may inspire the helots to revolt by talking to a woman in the crowd and thus interacting with Keleas. Kassandra still has to kill Keleas for the quest to progress. | ||
*The side quest [[Bully the Bullies]] is one of only a handful of missions missable throughout ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'', and as such it is uncertain if Kassandra canonically eliminated the | *The side quest [[Bully the Bullies]] is one of only a handful of missions missable throughout ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'', and as such it is uncertain if Kassandra canonically eliminated the ''krypteia'', as Pausanias asked. | ||
*Keleas' name may be a reference to the Greek word [http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.39:3:91.LSJ κελοῖα] (''keloia'', also ''kelea''), which was a contest for boys and youths of Sparta. | |||
==Gallery== | |||
<gallery widths="180" position="center" captionalign="center"> | |||
ACOd-Keleasbody.jpg|Keleas | |||
ACOD Bully the Bullies - Keleas addressing crowd.png|Keleas addressing the crowd | |||
</gallery> | |||
==Appearances== | ==Appearances== | ||
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[[Category:Greeks]] | [[Category:Greeks]] | ||
[[Category:Spartans]] | |||
[[Category:Ethnic Greeks]] | [[Category:Ethnic Greeks]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 09:47, 18 May 2023
Keleas (died 429 BCE) was a Spartan soldier who served as a member of the krypteia, an elite unit of the city-state's military.
Biography[edit | edit source]
In 429 BCE, Keleas and two others among his brethren "went rogue", according to King Pausanias. While before they had helped to upkeep the peace between Spartans and the enslaved helots, Keleas and his brethren had become brutal, killing helots without mercy or reason and leaving corpses to rot in the streets, as well as stealing livestock. Because of all this, Pausanias charged the misthios Kassandra with getting rid of the rogue krypteia.[1]
Described by Pausanias as elusive yet loudest of the three rogue krypteia, Kassandra found Keleas speaking to helots in the village of Krokeai, and slew him.[1]
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Kassandra may inspire the helots to revolt by talking to a woman in the crowd and thus interacting with Keleas. Kassandra still has to kill Keleas for the quest to progress.
- The side quest Bully the Bullies is one of only a handful of missions missable throughout Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, and as such it is uncertain if Kassandra canonically eliminated the krypteia, as Pausanias asked.
- Keleas' name may be a reference to the Greek word κελοῖα (keloia, also kelea), which was a contest for boys and youths of Sparta.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
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Keleas -
Keleas addressing the crowd
