Cleomenes I

Cleomenes I in Wikipedia

Cleomenes or Kleomenes (pronounced /kliːˈɒmɨniːz/; Greek Κλεομένης; d. c. 489 BC) was an Agiad King of Sparta in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC. During his reign, which started around 520 BC, he pursued an adventurous and at times unscrupulous foreign policy aimed at crushing Argos and extending Sparta's influence both inside and outside t...

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Cleomĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

King of Sparta, ascended the throne B.C. 519. At the beginning of his reign he undertook an expedition against the Argives, defeated them, and destroyed a large number who had taken refuge in a sacred grove. He afterwards drove out the Pisistratidae from Athens. This is the same Cleomenes whom Aristagoras endeavoured, but in vain, to involve in a w...

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