Plutarch's Lives

Acrotatus

Family: Sparta · Role: prince · First appears: Pyrrhus

Pyrrhus

  • parent: Areus “Acrotatus, Areus's son”
  • courtship with Chilonis “Chilonis, daughter of Leotychides, who, falling desperately in love with Acrotatus”

Agis

  • parent: Cleomenes (parent->child) “and had also two sons, Acrotatus and Cleonymus”
  • child: Areus (parent->child) “but left a son called Areus, who succeeded”
  • guardian: Leonidas (guardian->ward; the ward is Acrotatus's posthumous son, also called Leonidas in the surrounding genealogy, creating an ambiguous naming passage.) “Leonidas, son of the above-named Cleonymus, was made his guardian”
  • with Aristodemus (interaction) “Acrotatus was defeated, and slain near Megalopolis, in a battle against the tyrant Aristodemus”

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