Anaxandrides
Family: Lacedæmonian · Role: king · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 20
In the reign of Anaxandrides, son of Leo, the Lacedæmonians defeated the people of Tegea. His second wife bore Cleomenes, and his first wife, after a long period of barrenness, bore Dorieus, Leonidas, and Cleombrotus.
After Cleomenes died without male children, the kingdom passed to Leonidas, brother of Dorieus on both sides.
Relationship record
Life events
- The Lacedæmonians defeated the people of Tegea.(Book 3 · Chapter 3 · 📍 Tegea)
- “And in the reign of Anaxandrides the son of Leo they overcame the people of Tegea”
- Anaxandrides’ second wife gave birth to Cleomenes.(Book 3 · Chapter 3)
- With: Cleomenes (son of Anaxandrides)
- “And the second wife bare a son Cleomenes”
- Leonidas inherits the kingdom after Cleomenes dies without male children.(Book 3 · Chapter 4)
- With: Leonidas Dorieus Cleomenes (son of Anaxandrides)
- “And as Cleomenes had no male children the kingdom devolved upon Leonidas the son of Anaxandrides, the brother of Dorieus on both sides.”
Book 3 · Chapter 3
- parent: Leo (Leo is Anaxandrides's father.) “in the reign of Anaxandrides the son of Leo”
- child: Cleomenes (son of Anaxandrides) (Cleomenes is Anaxandrides's son.) “And the second wife bare a son Cleomenes”
- child: Dorieus (Dorieus is Anaxandrides's son.) “the first wife, though so long barren, after the birth of Cleomenes bare Dorieus, and Leonidas, and Cleombrotus.”
- child: Leonidas (Leonidas is Anaxandrides's son.) “the first wife, though so long barren, after the birth of Cleomenes bare Dorieus, and Leonidas, and Cleombrotus.”
- child: Cleombrotus (Cleombrotus is Anaxandrides's son.) “the first wife, though so long barren, after the birth of Cleomenes bare Dorieus, and Leonidas, and Cleombrotus.”
Book 3 · Chapter 4
- child: Leonidas “the kingdom devolved upon Leonidas the son of Anaxandrides,”
Book 3 · Chapter 16
- child: Dorieus “an Athenian hero who accompanied Dorieus, the son of Anaxandrides, on the expedition to colonize Sicily.”
Book 8 · Chapter 52
- child: Leonidas “Leonidas (the son of Anaxandrides)”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.