Epiclidas

Family: Sparta · Role: brother of Cleomenes · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 9

Life events

Cleomenes poisoned Eurydamidas and seized authority over Sparta.(Book 2 · Chapter 9 · 📍 Sparta)
- With: Cleomenes (son of Leonidas) Eurydamidas
- “Cleomenes, the son of Leonidas, and grandson of Cleonymus, when he succeeded to the kingdom in Sparta, imitated Pausanias in desiring to be an autocrat, and not to obey the established laws. And as he was more impetuous than Pausanias, and brave as a lion, he quickly moulded everything to his will by his sagacity and boldness, and took off by poison Eurydamidas, the king of the other royal branch, while quite a lad, and vested the power of the Ephors in his brother Epiclidas”
Epiclidas was killed in battle.(Book 2 · Chapter 9)
- “and of Leonidas’s sons, Epiclidas was killed in battle”

siblings with Cleomenes (son of Leonidas) “vested the power of the Ephors in his brother Epiclidas”
parent: Leonidas “And of Leonidas’s sons, Epiclidas was killed in battle”

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