Pleistarchus
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Infobox royalty Pleistarchus (Template:Langx Script error: No such module "lang".; died c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 458 BC) was the Agiad King of Sparta from 480 to 458 BC.[1]
Biography
Pleistarchus was born as a prince, likely the only son of King Leonidas I and Queen Gorgo. His grandparents were Kings Anaxandridas II and Cleomenes I.[2] He was born from an avunculate marriage – his parents were uncle and niece.[3] His uncle Cleombrotus was his tutor.[4]
Pleistarchus' father King Leonidas perished in 480 BC at the Battle of Thermopylae. For the early part of Pleistarchus's reign, his uncle Cleombrotus acted as regent; after Cleombrotus's death in 479 BC, Pleistarchus's cousin Pausanias was regent.[5]
It is unknown whether Pleistarchus was married. He died without an heir, and was succeeded by Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias.[6]
He had no known surviving relatives after his death, marking the end of his bloodline.
Notes
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- ↑ Herodotus; Histories, A. D. Godley (translator), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920; Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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- ↑ Herodotus, The Greek-Persian War (Osiris, Budapest, 2000) Template:ISBN
- ↑ The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
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