Cleombrotos

Family: Greek · Role: father of Pausanias · First appears: Book 4 · §78–84

Anaxandrides’s first wife gave birth to Leonidas and then, “after him at once,” Cleombrotos; the account also names Dorieos among his siblings and says some considered Cleombrotos and Leonidas twins. Pausanias, his son, dedicated a bronze bowl.

After Leonidas and his company perished at Thermopylai, the Peloponnesians appointed Cleombrotos commander at the Isthmus. They destroyed the Skironian way and began building a wall across the Isthmus. Later, Pausanias led an army from Lacedemon as guardian and cousin to the boy Pleistarchos. Cleombrotos had led home the army that built the wall and died “no long time after this.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Anaxandrides's first wife gave birth to Leonidas and then Cleombrotos.(Book 5 · §36–44)
  • With: Anaxandrides Leonidas
  • “and then straightway conceived Leonidas and after him at once Cleombrotos”
• The Peloponnesians gathered at the Isthmus and appointed Cleombrotos commander.(Book 8 · §65–71 · 📍 the Isthmus)
  • With: Anaxandrides
  • “they came together quickly from the cities and took post at the Isthmus, and over them was set as commander Cleombrotos, the son of Anaxandrides”
• The Peloponnesians destroyed the Skironian way and began building a wall across the Isthmus.(Book 8 · §65–71 · 📍 the Isthmus)
  • “they began to build a wall across the Isthmus”
• The Spartans sent out an army under Pausanias, guardian of the boy Pleistarchos.(Book 9 · §1–10 · 📍 Lacedemon)
  • With: Pausanias Pleistarchos Leonidas
  • “while yet it was night they sent out five thousand Spartans, with no less than seven of the Helots set to attend upon each man of them, appointing Pausanias the son of Cleombrotos to lead them forth. Now the leadership belonged to Pleistarchos the son of Leonidas; but he was yet a boy, and the other was his guardian and cousin”
• Cleombrotos died after leading the army home from the Isthmus.(Book 9 · §1–10 · 📍 the Isthmus)
  • With: Pausanias
  • “for Cleombrotos, the father of Pausanias and son of Anaxandrides, was no longer alive, but when he had led home from the Isthmus the army which had built the wall, no long time after this he died.”

Book 4 · §78–84

• with Pausanias (Pausanias is Cleombrotos' son.) “which Pausanias the son of Cleombrotos dedicated:”
• child: Pausanias “a bronze bowl, in size at least six times as large as the mixing-bowl at the entrance of the Pontus, which Pausanias the son of Cleombrotos dedicated:”

Book 5 · §36–44

• parent: Anaxandrides “she bore Dorieos and then straightway conceived Leonidas and after him at once Cleombrotos”
• siblings with Cleomenes “she bore Dorieos and then straightway conceived Leonidas and after him at once Cleombrotos,--nay, some even say that Cleombrotos and Leonidas were twins.”
• siblings with Dorieos “she bore Dorieos and then straightway conceived Leonidas and after him at once Cleombrotos,--nay, some even say that Cleombrotos and Leonidas were twins.”
• siblings with Leonidas “she bore Dorieos and then straightway conceived Leonidas and after him at once Cleombrotos,--nay, some even say that Cleombrotos and Leonidas were twins.”

Book 7 · §197–206

• siblings with Leonidas “because was of elder birth than Cleombrotos (for Cleombrotos was the youngest of the sons of Anaxandrides)”
• parent: Anaxandrides “for Cleombrotos was the youngest of the sons of Anaxandrides”

Book 8 · §65–71

• siblings with Leonidas “over them was set as commander Cleombrotos, the son of Anaxandrides and brother of Leonidas.”
• parent: Anaxandrides “over them was set as commander Cleombrotos, the son of Anaxandrides and brother of Leonidas.”

Book 9 · §1–10

• child: Pausanias (Cleombrotos was Pausanias's father.) “for Cleombrotos, the father of Pausanias and son of Anaxandrides”
• parent: Anaxandrides (Anaxandrides was Cleombrotos's father.) “for Cleombrotos, the father of Pausanias and son of Anaxandrides”

Book 9 · §63–70

• child: Pausanias “Pausanias the son of Cleombrotos, the son of Anaxandrides”
• parent: Anaxandrides “Pausanias the son of Cleombrotos, the son of Anaxandrides”
• with Pausanias (Pausanias is Cleombrotos’s son.) “the most famous victory of all those about which we have knowledge was gained by Pausanias the son of Cleombrotos, the son of Anaxandrides;”
• with Anaxandrides (Cleombrotos is Anaxandrides’s son.) “the most famous victory of all those about which we have knowledge was gained by Pausanias the son of Cleombrotos, the son of Anaxandrides;”

Book 9 · §71–78

• child: Pausanias “Son of Cleombrotos”

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