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...
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Cleomenes III (Ancient Greek: Κλεομένης) was one of the two kings of Sparta from 235 to 222 BC. He was a member of the Agiad dynasty and succeeded his...
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Cleomenes I (/kliːˈɒmɪniːz/; Greek Κλεομένης; died c. 490 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from c. 524 to c. 490 BC. One of the most important Spartan kings...
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Cleomenes II (Greek: Κλεομένης; died 309 BC) was king of Sparta from 370 to 309 BC. He was the second son of Cleombrotus I, and grandfather of Areus I...
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Cleomenes (Greek: Kλεoμένης Kleoménes; died 322 BC), a Greek of Naucratis in Ancient Egypt, was appointed by Alexander III of Macedon as nomarch of the...
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ascended to the throne in c. 489 BC, succeeding his half-brother king Cleomenes I. He ruled jointly along with king Leotychidas until his death in 480...
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Cleomenes of Rhegium (Greek: Kλεoμένης Kleoménes; 5th-century BC) was a Greek dithyrambic poet, apparently from Rhegium in Magna Graecia. According to...
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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...
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Corinth Time: 1459 SCENE ONE: Vestibule of the senate palace at Corinth Cleomene, governor of Corinth, realizes that his depleted troops cannot withstand...
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Cleomenes (/kliːˈɒmɪniːz/; Greek: Κλεομένης; fl. c. 300 BCE) was a Cynic philosopher. He was a pupil of Crates of Thebes, and is said to have taught Timarchus...
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remained sonless, he married a second time. From his second wife, he had Cleomenes I; then he returned to his first wife and had three sons in quick succession:...
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Cleomenes for spying on behalf of Perdiccas; this removed the chief check on his authority, and allowed Ptolemy to obtain the huge sum that Cleomenes...
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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...
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a pro-Achaea policy based on diplomacy. Anaxandridas was succeeded by Cleomenes I. Anaxandridas was the son of Leon, who reigned during the first half...
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Cleombrotus was succeeded by his son Agesipolis II. His other son was Cleomenes II. Many historians cite Cleombrotus as having pro-Theban tendencies,...
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Clearchus of Sparta – mercenary in the army of the Ten Thousand. Cleomenes I – king Cleomenes III – king and reformer Cynisca (4th century BC) – princess and...
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Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero or Cleomenes, The Spartan Heroe: A Tragedy is a 1692 tragedy by the English writer John Dryden. It was first staged at the...
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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...
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to the city during his life. After Alexander's departure, his viceroy Cleomenes continued the expansion. The architect Dinocrates of Rhodes designed the...
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Persia or anyone else. Cleomenes, unsurprisingly, was not pleased with events, and marched on Athens with the Spartan army. Cleomenes's attempts to restore...
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ruling class, and began planning an invasion to depose him. In 510 BCE Cleomenes I of Sparta successfully invaded Athens and trapped Hippias on the Acropolis...
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League for the control of the Peloponnese. Under the leadership of king Cleomenes III, Sparta initially had the upper hand, which forced the Achaean League...
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Cleomenes III. The battle was fought at Sellasia on the northern frontier of Laconia and ended in a Macedonian-Achaean victory. In 229 BC, Cleomenes initiated...
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in 226 BC seeking an unexpected alliance now that the reformist king Cleomenes III of Sparta was threatening the rest of Greece in the Cleomenean War...
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helped the Athenians overthrow the tyrant Hippias, son of Peisistratos. Cleomenes I, king of Sparta, established a pro-Spartan oligarchy conducted by Isagoras...
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c. 545 – c. 469 BC) was king of Sparta between 491–476 BC, alongside Cleomenes I and later Leonidas I and Pleistarchus. He led Spartan forces during...
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example, are attested only after the reformist Spartan monarchs Agis IV and Cleomenes III who sought to redistribute Sparta's land. The reforms attributed to...
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helped the Athenians overthrow the tyrant Hippias, son of Peisistratus. Cleomenes I, king of Sparta, put in place a pro-Spartan oligarchy headed by Isagoras...
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the death of the exiled king Cleomenes III in Egypt, the Spartans restored their traditional diarchy, installing Cleomenes's underaged grandnephew Agesipolis...
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most, 371 BC until his death in 369 BC. He was succeeded by his brother Cleomenes II. Mason, Charles Peter (1867), "Agesipolis II", in Smith, William (ed...
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