Pleistoanax

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3

When Pleistoanax was still a minor, his father was Pausanias, and Nicomedes commanded the Lacedaemonians on his behalf in the expedition to Doris. They compelled the Phocians to restore the town they had taken, then won the battle at Tanagra alongside their allies. In Book 3, Cleomenes commanded in place of Pausanias son of Pleistoanax, who was also a minor.

In the winter described in Book 5, Pleistoanax and Nicias sought a settlement and held conferences. As spring approached, the Lacedaemonians prepared for a fortified occupation of Attica to press Athens into negotiations; after the allies voted, the two sides concluded a peace treaty, with four cities dissenting. It set out the return of conquests and captives, while allowing Athens to keep Nisaea and requiring the return of Amphipolis and Panactum. That same summer, Pleistoanax led the Lacedaemonians into Arcadia against the Parrhasians, made them independent, razed the fortress of Cypsela, and returned home. The material also says that he and his brother Aristocles had bribed the prophetess of Delphi.