Pausanias (Plataea)

Family: Greece · Role: leader at Platæa · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 13

Life events

• Pausanias removed Leonidas's remains from Thermopylæ.(Book 3 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Thermopylæ)
  • With: Leonidas
  • “The remains of Leonidas were 40 years after his death removed from Thermopylæ by Pausanias”
• Pausanias was detected plotting and denied indemnity while seeking sanctuary.(Book 3 · Chapter 17)
  • “Pausanias was detected plotting, and was the only one of those that took sanctuary with Athene Chalciœcus that did not get indemnity”
• Pausanias stabbed Cleonice after she accidentally extinguished the room’s light.(Book 3 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Hellespont)
  • With: Cleonice
  • “For when he was at the Hellespont in command of the allied fleet, he got enamoured of a Byzantian maiden called Cleonice, and at nightfall a detachment of his men brought her to him. And Pausanias had fallen asleep, and when this maiden came into the room she knocked down inadvertently the light that was burning, and the noise woke him. And Pausanias, whose conscience smote him for having betrayed Greece, and who was therefore always in a state of nervous alarm and panic, was beside himself and stabbed the maiden with a scimetar.”
• Epidotes received brazen statues and honors for diverting Zeus’s wrath over Pausanias.(Book 3 · Chapter 17)
  • With: Epidotes Zeus
  • “And the Lacedæmonians at the bidding of the oracle made brazen statues for the god Epidotes, and otherwise honoured him, because he it was who in the case of Pausanias turned aside the wrath of Zeus the god of Suppliants.”

Book 1 · Chapter 13

• child: Pleistoanax “Pausanias that led the Greeks at Platæa had a son Pleistoanax”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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