Cleombrotus

Family: Lacedæmonian · Role: prince · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 3

Book 3 · Chapter 3

parent: Anaxandrides (Cleombrotus is Anaxandrides's son.) “the first wife, though so long barren, after the birth of Cleomenes bare Dorieus, and Leonidas, and Cleombrotus.”
siblings with Cleomenes (son of Anaxandrides) “the second wife bare a son Cleomenes, and the first wife, though so long barren, after the birth of Cleomenes bare Dorieus, and Leonidas, and Cleombrotus.”
siblings with Dorieus “the first wife, though so long barren, after the birth of Cleomenes bare Dorieus, and Leonidas, and Cleombrotus.”
siblings with Leonidas “the first wife, though so long barren, after the birth of Cleomenes bare Dorieus, and Leonidas, and Cleombrotus.”

child: Pausanias “And Pausanias the son of Cleombrotus was not king after Leonidas,”

enemies with Epaminondas (Opposing commanders in the war between the Lacedæmonians and the Thebans) “And when war at last broke out between the Lacedæmonians and the Thebans, and the Lacedæmonians attacked the Thebans with their own forces and those of their allies, Epaminondas with part of his army stationed himself near the marsh Cephisis, as the Peloponnesians were going to make their attack in that quarter, but Cleombrotus the king of the Lacedæmonians turned aside to Ambrosus in Phocis”
with Chæreas (Cleombrotus killed Chæreas) “but Cleombrotus the king of the Lacedæmonians turned aside to Ambrosus in Phocis, and after slaying Chæreas, who had been ordered to guard the by-roads, and the men who were with him”

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