committed suicide. Cleomenes was born in Sparta to the future Agiad king Leonidas II and his wife Cratesicleia. The exact year of Cleomenes' birth is unknown...

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...

229 BC, Cleomenes initiated hostilities against the Achaean League, the dominant power of the Peloponnese. In a series of campaigns, Cleomenes was successful...

the death of Cleomenes III he was elected king while still a minor, and placed under the dubious guardianship of an uncle named Cleomenes. Agesipolis was...

events, and is also very biased against Cleomenes. It seems that Herodotus got his information on Cleomenes from his opponents: the descendants of his...

wife of Cleomenes III, she had previously been married to Agis IV. She had one son from Agis (Eudamidas III) and at least two sons from Cleomenes, who are...

are attested only after the reformist Spartan monarchs Agis IV and Cleomenes III who sought to redistribute Sparta's land. The reforms attributed to...

citizens undertook civic and military training. Cleomenes III suffered serious defeats in 223 BC and Ptolemy III abandoned his support for him in the next year...

formed alliances with Epirus and the Achaean League. When Sparta, under Cleomenes III, attempted to establish hegemony over the whole Peloponnese, Aratus...

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 Sparta...

of their relatives. The Gerousia was probably reformed by the king Cleomenes III (r.235–222), who made the gerontes elected annually. No longer elected...

two young sons executed. Issue Cleomenes III Chilonis (wife of Cleombrotus II) Plutarco, Vite Parallele: Agide, Cleomene. Cross, Geoffrey Neale (August...

with only a dagger. During the Battle of Sellasia, the Spartan king Cleomenes III "called Damoteles, the commander of the Crypteia, and ordered him to...

241 to 235 BC. Leonidas was the son of Cleonymus and grandson of King Cleomenes II (r. 370–309) of the Agiad dynasty, one of the two royal families of...

in 420 BCE. Cleomenes III abolished the position of ephor in 227 BCE, and replaced them with a position called the patronomos. Cleomenes's coup resulted...

Alexandria, led by Cleomenes III of Sparta, which Polybius presents as having been a serious threat to Ptolemy IV's regime. Ptolemy III had promised to restore...

declining Spartan population, but was successfully reinvigorated by Cleomenes III in 226 BC. It was abolished less than forty years later by Philopoemen...

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...

Spartans retained the traditional hoplite phalanx until the reforms of Cleomenes III when they were re-equipped with the Macedonian sarissa and trained in...

Egypt, where he might have fled alongside Cleomenes III after his defeat at Sellasia in 222. In 225, Cleomenes III seized the city of Argos, thanks to the...

Macedonia for assistance. Antigonus III's forces fail to pierce Cleomenes' lines near Corinth, but a revolt against Cleomenes at Argos put the Spartans on the...

erstwhile enemy, Macedon. Cleomenes III was defeated at the Battle of Sellasia by the joint forces of the Achaean League and Antigonus III Doson, the regent of...

Constitution Great Rhetra Legislators Lycurgus Chilon Epitadeus Agis IV Cleomenes III Government List of Kings of Sparta Agiads Eurypontids Gerousia Ephorate...

dwindled. Attempts at reform, notably by the Spartan kings Agis IV and Cleomenes III, failed. By the mid-4th century BC, the number of Spartiates had been...

a Spartan queen, married first to king Agis IV and secondly to king Cleomenes III of Sparta. She was the daughter of the rich Spartan citizen Gilippo...

Argos (3rd century BC), rebel who led a revolt against the rule of Cleomenes III in Argos Aristotle of Mytilene (2nd century AD), Peripatetic philosopher...

fellow king Agesipolis III and ruling Sparta as its sole monarch. In 219 BC, after the death of the exiled king Cleomenes III in Egypt, the Spartans restored...

Antigonus III, marries the former king Demetrius II's widow, Phthia, and assumes the crown thus deposing the young Philip V. The Spartan King Cleomenes III imposes...

also known as the Symmachy, under Antigonus III Doson that was originally formed to fight Cleomenes III of Sparta, 226 BCE The association of Greek city-states...

of Cleomenes. Though these failures were offset to some extent by the occupation of Caphyae, a city that had previously been taken over by Cleomenes, the...