Cleomenes (father)
Also known as: Cleomenes · Family: Lacedæmonians · Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 13
In Book 1, Chapter 13, Cleomenes had two sons, Acrotatus, the elder, and Cleonymus, the younger. By Book 3, Chapter 6, his elder son had died before him; afterward, his younger son Cleomenes also died.
In Book 8, Chapter 27, in time of peace, Cleomenes captured Megalopolis, killed those he captured, razed the city, and burned it.
Relationship record
Life events
- Cleomenes captured Megalopolis, slew captives, razed the city, and burned it.(Book 8 · Chapter 27 · 📍 Megalopolis)
- “And Cleomenes slew all he captured, and rased the city to the ground, and burnt it with fire.”
Book 1 · Chapter 13
- child: Acrotatus (son of Cleomenes) “And he had two sons, the elder Acrotatus and the younger Cleonymus.”
- child: Cleonymus (son of Cleomenes) “And he had two sons, the elder Acrotatus and the younger Cleonymus.”
Book 3 · Chapter 6
- siblings 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.”
- child: Acrotatus (son of Cleomenes) “And he had two sons, of whom the eldest Acrotatus died before his father”
- child: Cleomenes (younger son) “And he had two sons, of whom the eldest Acrotatus died before his father, and when later on the younger Cleomenes died”
- child: Cleonymus (son of Cleomenes) “between Cleonymus the son of Cleomenes and Areus the son of Acrotatus”
Book 8 · Chapter 27
- child: Acrotatus (son of Cleomenes) “under Acrotatus, the eldest of the sons of their king Cleomenes”
Book 8 · Chapter 30
- child: Acrotatus (son of Cleomenes) “the spoils taken from the Lacedæmonians under Acrotatus the son of Cleomenes, who were defeated fighting against Aristodemus, who at that time had the chief power in Megalopolis.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.