Cleombrotus
Family: Lacedaemonians · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 2
In Book 1, Section 4, Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus, was sent from Lacedaemon as commander-in-chief of the Hellenes. In the next part, Nicomedes, also Cleombrotus’s son, led the Lacedaemonians to aid the Dorians and compelled the Phocians to restore the town they had taken.
Later, in Book 2, Section 8, Pausanias restored Plataea’s city and territory and declared it independent and inviolate.
Relationship record
Life events
- Pausanias was sent out as commander-in-chief of the Hellenes.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 2 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
- With: Pausanias
- “Meanwhile Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus, was sent out from Lacedaemon as commander-in-chief of the Hellenes, with twenty ships from Peloponnese.”
- Nicomedes compelled the Phocians to restore the town they had taken.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3 · 📍 Doris)
- With: Nicomedes Pleistoanax Pausanias
- “After compelling the Phocians to restore the town on conditions, they began their retreat.”
- Pausanias restored Plataea’s city and territory and declared it independent and inviolate.(Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 1 · 📍 Plataea)
- With: Pausanias
- “restored to the Plataeans their city and territory, and declared it independent and inviolate against aggression or conquest.”
Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 2
- child: Pausanias “Meanwhile Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus, was sent out from Lacedaemon”
Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 3
- child: Nicomedes “Meanwhile the Phocians made an expedition against Doris, the old home of the Lacedaemonians, containing the towns of Boeum, Kitinium, and Erineum. They had taken one of these towns, when the Lacedaemonians under Nicomedes, son of Cleombrotus, commanding for King Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias, who was still a minor, came to the aid of the Dorians with fifteen hundred heavy infantry of their own, and ten thousand of their allies.”
Book 2 · Chapter 8 · Part 1
- child: Pausanias “Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus, your countryman,”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.