-
Cleomenes may
refer to: one of
several kings of Sparta:
Cleomenes I (c. 520 – c. 490 BC)
Cleomenes II (370–309 BC)
Cleomenes III (236–219 BC) Cleomenes...
- events, and is also very
biased against Cleomenes. It
seems that
Herodotus got his
information on
Cleomenes from his opponents: the
descendants of his...
-
committed suicide.
Cleomenes was born in
Sparta to the ****ure
Agiad king
Leonidas II and his wife Cratesicleia. The
exact year of
Cleomenes'
birth is unknown...
- statement,
Diodorus nevertheless tells that
Cleomenes II
reigned 34 years, but he
confused him with his
namesake Cleomenes I (r. 524–490).
Despite the outstanding...
- of the
Seven Sages of Greece),
promptly bore a son,
Cleomenes. However, one year
after Cleomenes' birth, Anaxandridas'
first wife also gave
birth to a...
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Cleomenes was a seer in Alexander's entourage, who in 328 BC
interpreted an
unfavorable omen for the king at the time of the
Cleitus affair. Cleomenes...
- king
Antigonos Doson, who
decisively defeated Cleomenes in the
battle of
Sellasia in 222. In 235 BC,
Cleomenes III (r. 235–222 BC)
ascended the
throne of...
-
informed of
Cleomenes' actions, but
found it
convenient to take no
notice of them. But
after his
return to
Babylon in 323 BC, he
wrote to
Cleomenes, commanding...
-
Leonidas I (r. 489–480 BC). She was the
daughter and the only
known child of
Cleomenes I, Leonidas' half-brother and King of
Sparta (r. 520–490 BC).
Gorgo was...
- Graecia.
According to Athenaeus,
Cleomenes is
censured by Chionides: I
swear that
neither now Gnesippus, nor
Cleomenes with all his nine-stringed lyre...
