Cleonymus (father of Leonidas)
Family: Sparta · Role: ancestor of Cleomenes · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 9
Cleonymus was the father of Leonidas. When Leonidas was quite a boy, he swore an oath to Cleonymus his father. Cleonymus was also the grandfather of Cleomenes, who succeeded to the kingdom in Sparta.
Relationship record
Book 2 · Chapter 9
- with Cleomenes (son of Leonidas) (grandparent of Cleomenes) “Cleomenes, the son of Leonidas, and grandson of Cleonymus, when he succeeded to the kingdom in Sparta”
- younger kin: Cleomenes (son of Leonidas) (Cleonymus was Cleomenes's grandfather.) “Cleomenes, the son of Leonidas, and grandson of Cleonymus, when he succeeded to the kingdom in Sparta”
Book 3 · Chapter 6
- child: Leonidas “the oath he had sworn to Cleonymus his father while quite a boy”
Book 4 · Chapter 29
- younger kin: Cleomenes (son of Leonidas) “Cleomenes, the son of Leonidas and grandson of Cleonymus, took Megalopolis the chief town of the Arcadians in truce time.”
Book 7 · Chapter 7
- younger kin: Cleomenes (son of Leonidas) “And Cleomenes, the son of Leonidas and grandson of Cleonymus, a king of the other family, when Aratus and the Achæans were gathered together at Dyme against him routed them badly in battle, though he afterwards concluded peace with the Achæans and Antigonus.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.