Pausanias

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: king · First appears: Book 2, section 4, part 3/4

In 403 BC, Pausanias challenged Lysander’s rising influence at Eleusis, persuading three ephors to support him and calling out the ban. At Piraeus, his forces fought the men there, killing about thirty light troops and pursuing the rest. He later advanced into Boeotia with the Lacedaemonian army; on the third day, the Lacedaemonians accepted the Thebans’ terms to recover their dead and withdraw. After Pausanias returned home, he was tried on a capital charge, including failing to reach Haliartus as soon as Lysander and letting the popular government at Piraeus escape his grasp. He did not appear at trial, was sentenced to death in absentia, escaped to Tegea, and died there of illness while still in exile.

In 385 BC, Pausanias treated with his son Agesipolis on behalf of sixty Mantinean exiles and obtained immunity for them on condition that they leave the city.