Cleomenes (younger son)

Also known as: Cleomenes · Family: Lacedæmonians · Role: younger son of Cleomenes and king · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 6

Cleomenes was the younger son of Cleomenes and the brother of Acrotatus, who died before their father. After Agesipolis died, Cleomenes succeeded his brother as king; the account says, “Cleomenes the younger succeeded after his brother’s death.”

Relationship record

Life events

• After Agesipolis died, his younger brother Cleomenes succeeded him.(Book 3 · Chapter 6)
  • With: Agesipolis (son of Cleombrotus)
  • “The elder son of Cleombrotus, Agesipolis, did nothing worthy of record, and Cleomenes the younger succeeded after his brother’s death.”

Book 3 · Chapter 6

• parent: Cleomenes (father) “And he had two sons, of whom the eldest Acrotatus died before his father, and when later on the younger Cleomenes died”
• siblings with Acrotatus (son of Cleomenes) “And he had two sons, of whom the eldest Acrotatus died before his father, and when later on the younger Cleomenes died”
• siblings with Agesipolis (son of Cleombrotus) (They are the elder and younger sons of Cleombrotus.) “The elder son of Cleombrotus, Agesipolis, did nothing worthy of record, and Cleomenes the younger succeeded after his brother’s death.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.