Pausanias
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Spartan general and regent (died c. 477 BC)
Key facts
- Reign
- 479–478 BC
- Predecessor
- Cleombrotus
- Successor
- Pleistarchus
- Born
- Unknown
- Died
- 470–465 BC, Sparta
- Issue
- Pleistoanax Cleomenes Nasteria
- Greek
- Παυσανίας
- House
- Agiad
- Father
- Cleombrotus
- Mother
- Theano
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sparta
- Place of birth
- Sparta
- Place of death
- Sparta
- Father
- Cleombrotus
- Sibling
- Nicomedes
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Position held
- regent
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Family
- Agiads
- Military branch
- Spartan army
- Military rank
- general
- Image
- Pausanias in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.jpg
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- name in native language
- Παυσανίας
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- Commons category
- Pausanias (general)
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Encyclopedic overview
Pausanias (Ancient Greek: Παυσανίας) was a Spartan regent and a general. In 479 BC, as a leader of the Hellenic League's combined land forces, he won a pivotal victory against the Achaemenid Empire in the Battle of Plataea. Despite his role in ending the Second Persian invasion of Greece, Pausanias subsequently fell under suspicion of conspiring with the Persian king Xerxes I. After an interval of repeated arrests and debates about his guilt, he was starved to death by his fellow Spartans. What is known of his life is largely according to Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Diodorus' Bibliotheca historica and a handful of other classical sources.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pausanias” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.