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Pleistarchus (Ancient Gr****: Πλείσταρχος Pleistarchos; died c. 458 BC) was the
Agiad King of
Sparta from 480 to 458 BC.
Pleistarchus was born as a prince...
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Leotychidas until his
death in 480 BC, when he was
succeeded by his son,
Pleistarchus. At the
Second Greco-Persian War,
Leonidas led the
allied Gr**** forces...
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Hyllarima were
fortified by
Pleistarchus in the 290s BC. An
inscription from the
sanctuary of
Sinuri near
Mylasa shows that
Pleistarchus'
power was respected...
- and King of
Sparta (r. 520–490 BC).
Gorgo was also the
mother of King
Pleistarchus, her only son with King
Leonidas I. She is
notably one of the few female...
- of the
kings of Sparta.
After Leonidas' death,
while the king's son
Pleistarchus was
still in his minority,
Pausanias served as
regent of Sparta. Pausanias...
- son of Pausanias,
regent in the
beginning of the
reign of his
nephew Pleistarchus (r. 480–459)
until his
murder by the ephors,
possibly in 467/6, allegedly...
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prevalent method in
Europe for
naming years.
Pleistoanax succeeds Pleistarchus as king of Sparta.
Pericles continues Ephialtes'
democratising activities...
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Sparta between 491–476 BC,
alongside Cleomenes I and
later Leonidas I and
Pleistarchus. He led
Spartan forces during the
Persian Wars from 490 BC to 478 BC...
- With
Demetrius gone C****ander sent part of his army with his brother,
Pleistarchus, to join Prepalaus,
Lysimachus and
Seleucus in Asia-Minor. In 301 BC...
- Cleombrotus,
fourth son of
Anaxandridas II, died in 479. He was
regent for
Pleistarchus in 480, and died just
before the
Battle of
Plataea in 479. Gorgo, daughter...
