Megistonus

Family: Spartan · Role: Cleomenes's stepfather · First appears: Cleomenes

Life events

• Cleomenes abolished the ephors’ power, redistributed wealth and land, and expanded Spartan citizenship.(Cleomenes · 📍 Sparta)
  • With: Cleomenes
  • “Then he himself first, with his step-father, Megistonus, and his friends, gave up all their wealth into one public stock, and all the other citizens followed the example. The land was divided, and everyone that he had banished, had a share assigned him”

Cleomenes

• child: Cleomenes “with his step-father, Megistonus”
• married with Cratesiclea “though of herself she had no inclination to marry, yet for his sake, she accepted, as her husband, one of the chiefest citizens for wealth and power.”
• with Cleomenes (interaction) “Megistonus, his mother's husband”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.