Sparta - 550 - 490 BC
- Created by: Erin Williams
- Created on: 12-05-13 11:01
View mindmap
- 550 - 490 BC
- Cleomenes I (520-490BC)
- Herodotus tells us about Cleomenes
- Herodotus attributes Cleomenes painful death to the sacriledge he performed at the Battle of Sepeia
- In 506 Cleomenes led a Peloponnesian force to Attica
- Cleomenes did not tell the force of their target
- Their target (Athens) came apparent when the forces reached Attica
- The Corinthians changed their mind as they didn't think war with Athens was right.
- The rest of the allies then withdrew also and the campaign failed
- In 499BC Aristagoras of Miletus came to Sparta asking for help against the Persians
- Cleomenes decided not to help him, but it took the sharp wits of his 8 year old daughter Gorgo
- In 494 BC Cleomenes led forces to Argos
- Known as the Battle of Sepeia
- Cleomenes carried out a coup de grace against Argos in which he ordered the helots to burn down the sacred wood of Argos
- This killed the 6000 Argive warrior citizens that were hidden inside
- Cleomenes used the Delphic Oracle to indicate that Demaratus was illegitimate
- Herodotus tells us about Cleomenes
- Anaxandridas
- Herododtus tells us about this King
- Anaxandridasfirst wife had been blamed for failing to conceive
- But he loved her and refused to divorce her even when formally commanded by the Ephors
- "as your wife bears no children you had better get rid of her and marry someone else"
- Herododtus tells us about this King
- "as your wife bears no children you had better get rid of her and marry someone else"
- So he committed bigamy by marrying a second wife
- But he loved her and refused to divorce her even when formally commanded by the Ephors
- He went on to have 4 sons, by his second wife he had Cleomenes, and by his first wife he had Dorieus, Leonidas and Cleombrotus
- This caused a succession dispute between Cleomenes and Dorieus
- The Spartans chose the first born male son
- This caused a succession dispute between Cleomenes and Dorieus
- Untitled
- Demaratus (515 - 491BC)
- Herodotus tells us about Cleomenes co-king
- Untitled
- Herodotus softens his criticisms
- He used a descendant of Demaratus as his informant
- After Cleomenes failed invasion into Attica in 506 BC a law was passed saying that only one king could go on campaign at any one time
- This was because Demaratus had sided with the Corinthians
- Demaratus played a big part in bringing Cleomenes to trial for his failure to capture the city of Argos
- Cleomenes was acquitted
- Demaratus was deposed in 491BC
- This was because Cleomenes brought back an oracle from Delphi claiming that Demaratus was illegitimate
- Demaratus thien went into voluntary exile after being insulted by the new King, Leotychides
- He left for Persia where he functions as the wise advisor to King Xerxes
- Herodotus tells us about Cleomenes co-king
- Cleisthenes and Isagoras 507BC
- There was a power struggle in Athens between two noble families, represented by Cleisthenes and Isagoras
- Cleomenes I (520-490BC)
Comments
No comments have yet been made