Pleistoanax (reigned 458 BCE – 409 BCE) was an Agiad King of Sparta. Events By place Greece Pleistoanax succeeds his father Pleistarchus as king of Sparta. Events By place Greece Alcibiades recaptures Byzantium, ending the city's rebellion from Athens. Sparta was an important Greek city-state in the Peloponnesus. Sparta was an important Greek city-state in the Peloponnesus. He was the son of regent Pausanias (general), who was disgraced for conspiring with Xerxes. Pausanias (Greek = Παυσανίας (d c 470 BC was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC Pleistoanax was most anxious for Peace during the so-called First Peloponnesian War. The First Peloponnesian War ( 460 BC - circa 445 BC) was fought between Sparta as the leaders of the Peloponnesian League and Sparta's other allies He was exiled sometime between 446 BCE and 444 BCE, charged by the Spartans with taking a bribe, probably from Pericles (noted as "10 talents necessary expenses" in Athens' funds), to withdraw from the plain of Eleusis in Attica after leading the Peloponnesian forces there following the revolts of Euboea and Megara from the Athenian Empire. Events By place Greece Achaea achieves its independence from Athens, while Euboea, crucial to Athenian control of Events By place Greece The conservative and democratic factions in Athens confront each other The city of Sparta ( Doric Σπάρτα Attic Σπάρτη Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (c 495 – 429 BC Greek:, meaning "surrounded by glory" was a prominent and influential Statesman, orator Elefsina (Ελευσίνα Ancient/ Katharevousa: Eleusis is a town and municipality about 20 km NW of Athens. Attica (Αττική Attikí;) is a periphery (subdivision in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece Accepting such a bribe would have essentially amounted to treason, but some scholars (e. g. Walker, Meyer, Beloch, Busolt) doubt this, or at least agree that it is not enough information to explain the happenings[1]. Also some believe that a more probable reason for the withdrawal of Pleistoanax and his advisor Cleandrides could be that Pericles offered good terms for a peace (e. Cleandrides (or Cleandridas was a Spartan general of the 5th century BCE who advised the young Agiad king Pleistoanax during the early part of the latter's g. later there was a treaty between Sparta and Athens)[2].
In 428 BCE, Pleistoanax was recalled and restored in obedience to the Delphic oracle's advice, though some suspected he had tampered with the Pythia. Events By place Greece The chief city of Lesbos, Mytilene, revolts against Athenian rule Delphi ( Greek,) ( pronounce and dialectal forms) is an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western PYTHIA is a computer simulation program for particle collisions at very high energies (see Event (particle physics) in Particle accelerators His enemies still blamed him for Spartan disasters, so Pleistoanax advocated peace to bring an end to the disasters.
| Preceded by Pleistarchus |
Agiad King of Sparta 458-409 BC |
Succeeded by Pausanias |
References
- ^ Donald Kagan, The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Pleistarchus (d 458 BC was the Agiad King of Sparta from 480 to 458 BC Sparta was an important Greek city-state in the Peloponnesus. Pausanias ( Greek Παυσανίας) King of Sparta from 409 BC Donald Kagan (born 1932 is an American Historian at Yale specializing in Ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian page 124f. Ithaca/New York 1969, ISBN 0801495563.
- ^ Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta in Savage Conflict 431-404 BC, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003 (First published in the USA by Penguin Putnam 2003), page 17f.
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