Gorgo
Family: Spartan · Role: daughter of Cleomenes · First appears: Book 5 · §45–51
Life events
- Gorgo suggests scraping the tablet's wax, revealing Demaratos's warning.(Book 7 · §235–239 · 📍 Lacedemon)
- With: Demaratos
- “Gorgo, the daughter of Cleomenes and wife of Leonidas, suggested a plan of which she had herself thought, bidding them scrape the wax and they would find writing upon the wood”
- The Lacedemonians read Demaratos's warning and send notice to the other Hellenes.(Book 7 · §235–239 · 📍 Lacedemon)
- With: Demaratos
- “doing as she said they found the writing and read it, and after that they sent notice to the other Hellenes.”
Book 5 · §45–51
- parent: Cleomenes “for the daughter of Cleomenes was standing by him, whose name was Gorgo, and this as it chanced was his only child, being of the age now of eight or nine years.”
Book 7 · §235–239
- married with Leonidas “Gorgo, the daughter of Cleomenes and wife of Leonidas, suggested a plan of which she had herself thought, bidding them scrape the wax and they would find writing upon the wood;”
- parent: Cleomenes “Gorgo, the daughter of Cleomenes and wife of Leonidas, suggested a plan of which she had herself thought, bidding them scrape the wax and they would find writing upon the wood;”
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