Anaxidamus

Family: Eurypontidæ · Role: king · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 7

During Anaxidamus’s reign, the Messenians evacuated the Peloponnese after their second defeat by the Spartans. He succeeded Zeuxidamus, son of Archidamus, to the kingdom, and had a son, Archidamus.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Messenians evacuated the Peloponnese after their second defeat by Sparta.(Book 3 · Chapter 7 · 📍 Peloponnese)
  • “It was in his reign that the Messenians evacuated the Peloponnese, having been a second time conquered in war by the Spartans.”

Book 3 · Chapter 7

• parent: Zeuxidamus (son of Archidamus) “who was succeeded in the kingdom by his son Anaxidamus”
• child: Archidamus (son of Anaxidamus) “And Anaxidamus had a son Archidamus”

Book 4 · Chapter 15

• parent: Zeuxidamus (son of Archidamus) “and of the other family Anaxidamus the son of Zeuxidamus, the son of Archidamus, the son of Theopompus”

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