Cratesiclea

Family: Spartan · Role: Cleomenes's mother · First appears: Cleomenes

Life events

Cleomenes died after the revolt, and Ptolemy ordered his body displayed and his family killed.(Cleomenes · 📍 Alexandria)
- With: Cleomenes Ptolemy
- “Thus fell Cleomenes, after the life which we have narrated, having been king of Sparta sixteen years. The news of their fall being noised through the city, Cratesiclea, though a woman of a great spirit, could not bear up against the weight of this affliction; but embracing Cleomenes's children, broke out into lamentations. But the eldest boy, none suspecting such a spirit in a child, threw himself headlong from the top of the house. He was bruised very much, but not killed by the fall, and was taken up crying, and expressing his resentment for not being permitted to destroy himself. Ptolemy, as soon as an account of the action was brought him, gave order that Cleomenes's body should be flayed and hung up, and that his children, mother, and the women that were with her, should be killed.”

child: Cleomenes “his mother Cratesiclea, who spared no cost and was very zealous to promote her son's ambition”
parent: Cleomenes “his mother Cratesiclea, who spared no cost and was very zealous to promote her son's ambition”
married with Megistonus “though of herself she had no inclination to marry, yet for his sake, she accepted, as her husband, one of the chiefest citizens for wealth and power.”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.