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Cleomenes

CLEOMENES
The celebrated one

Cleomenes I , Agiad king of Sparta (reigned c. 520–490 BC), son of Anaxandridas II by a second, bigamous union. His long, activist reign was one of the half-dozen most influential on record. He pursued an adventurous and at times unscrupulous foreign policy aimed at crushing Argos and extending Sparta's influence both inside and outside the Peloponnese. Around 494, Cleomenes invaded Argos, and by fooling the Argive army he killed about 6000 inhabitants.

Argos remained a bitter enemy of Sparta for decades after this attack. Around 490 BC Cleomenes was forced to flee Sparta when his plot against Demaratus was discovered, but the Spartans allowed him to return when he began gathering an army in the surrounding territories.

However, according to Herodotus he was by this time insane, and the Spartans put him in prison. He then tried to escape by cutting himself into pieces, and died as a result. He was succeeded by Leonidas I, who married his daughter Gorgo. It was during his reign, but not entirely according to his design, that the Peloponnesian League came formally into existence.

Resource Material:

creekin.net
Wikipedia

-by Nefertari Cleomenes
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avatar5.gif * Polymnia Cleomenes
80 Board Posts - 3 Groups
last login: December 9 , 2010
Alexander_the_Great.jpg * Alexius Cleomenes
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last login: November 14 , 2009
avatar107.gif * Hephestes Cleomenes
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last login: November 4 , 2002
athens-m-000.gif * Aristotle Cleomenes
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last login: November 11 , 2002
portrait_socrates.gif * Nikolaos Cleomenes
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last login: October 1 , 2011
annielennox1.jpg * Annie Lennox Cleomenes
57 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: November 10 , 2008
golden.jpg * Golden Girls Cleomenes
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last login: February 4 , 2012
00.gif * Axiothea Cleomenes
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last login: September 24 , 2006
avatar142.gif * Aspasia Cleomenes
5 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: August 8 , 2003
avatar141.gif * Aconitea Cleomenes
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last login: September 15 , 2003
avatar000.gif * Liliax Cleomenes
00018412_000.gif * Cleisthenes Cleomenes
33 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: July 14 , 2007
18C661945-0686-91BC-16A6BB92D5EFD692.jpg * Rapunzal Cleomenes
25 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: December 19 , 2009
avatar139.gif * Aurelia Cleomenes
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last login: September 23 , 2005
untitled.JPG * Cuckoo Cleomenes
11 Board Posts - 0 Groups
last login: June 9 , 2006
00000063_000.gif * Nefertari Cleomenes
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last login: November 22 , 2006
Athens_default_female.png * An Cleomenes
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last login: May 25 , 2006
avatar202.gif * Euandros Cleomenes
4 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: July 25 , 2011
avatar106.gif * Xenea Cleomenes
35 Board Posts - 1 Group
last login: May 4 , 2009
avatar000.gif * Octavia Cleomenes
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