Cleombrotus

Family: Sparta · Role: king · First appears: Pelopidas

Life events

• Pelopidas and the Sacred Band helped Epaminondas rout the Spartans at Leuctra.(Pelopidas · 📍 Leuctra)
  • With: Pelopidas Epaminondas
  • “In this battle, however, Epaminondas with his phalanx, neglecting the other Greeks, and charging them alone, and Pelopidas coming up with such incredible speed and fury, so broke their courage, and baffled their art, that there began such a flight and slaughter amongst the Spartans, as was never before known.”
• Leonidas was deposed, and Cleombrotus became king in his place.(Agis)
  • With: Leonidas
  • “they pronounced a sentence of deposition against him, and made Cleombrotus king in his place.”
• Agis and Cleombrotus removed the ephors, appointed replacements, armed young men, and released prisoners.(Agis · 📍 market-place)
  • With: Agis Agesilaus
  • “Agis and Cleombrotus, thus persuaded, went together with their friends into the market-place, where, removing the ephors from their seats, they placed others in their room of whom Agesilaus was one; proceeding then to arm a company of young men, and releasing many out of prison;”
• Leonidas was restored, Agesilaus escaped, and Agis and Cleombrotus fled to sanctuaries.(Agis · 📍 Tegea)
  • With: Leonidas Agesilaus Hippomedon Agis
  • “openly bringing hack Leonidas from Tegea, reestablished him in the kingdom”

Pelopidas

• enemies with Pelopidas “Pelopidas with the three hundred came rapidly up, before Cleombrotus could extend his line, and close up his divisions, and so fell upon the Spartans while in disorder”

Agesilaus

• with Agesipolis (interaction) “He sent Cleombrotus on that errand, who was now his fellow king, in the place of Agesipolis, who was dead”
• with Agesilaus (interaction) “He sent Cleombrotus on that errand, who was now his fellow king”

Agis

• child: Cleomenes (parent->child) “who left two sons; the elder was Agesipolis, who reigned but a short time, and died without issue; the younger, who then became king, was called Cleomenes”
• married with Chilonis (Chilonis is Cleombrotus's wife.) “His wife, Chilonis, the daughter of Leonidas”
• with Agis (They acted jointly as kings against the ephors.) “Agis and Cleombrotus, thus persuaded, went together with their friends into the market-place”
• siblings with Agesipolis “he, dying without issue, was succeeded by a younger brother, called Cleombrotus”
• with Leonidas (interaction) “Cleombrotus ... was his son-in-law”

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