Pausanias
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Spartan general and regent (died c. 477 BC)
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Pausanias was a male military leader and general in the Spartan army. Born in Sparta, he was a member of the Agiads family and served as a regent. His father was Cleombrotus, and he had a sibling named Nicomedes. Pausanias was the father of Pleistoanax. He spoke Ancient Greek and was a citizen of Sparta, where he was also buried.
He is recognized as an author with a work count of 169. His notable works include *Pausaniae Decem regionum veteris Graeciae descriptio*, *Pavsaniae Graeciae descriptio accvrata, qua ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur*, *Pausaniae Descriptio Graeciae*, *Description de la Grèce...*, and *Graeciae descriptio*. According to Open Library, he was active approximately 150 and died in 175.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- active approximately 150
- Died
- 175
- Works
- 169
Top works
- Pausaniae Decem regionum veteris Graeciae descriptio
- Pavsaniae Graeciae descriptio accvrata, qua ceu manu per eam regionem circumducitur
- Pausaniae Descriptio Graeciae
- Description de la Grèce...
- Graeciae descriptio
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Description of Greece
· 1918 · cited 118x
- Des Pausanias ausführliche Reisebeschreibung von Griechenland Band 3, Teil 2
· 1799
- Graeciae descriptio, Libri V-VIII
· 1990
- Des Pausanias ausführliche Reisebeschreibung von Griechenland Teil 1, Band 1
· 1798
- Graeciae descriptio, Libri I-IV
· 1989
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Quotes
- “They say that these were the tribes collected by Amphiktyon himself in the Greek Assembly: … the Macedonians joined and the entire Phocian race … In my day there were thirty members: six each from Nikopolis, Macedonia and Thessaly...”
- “The Phocians were deprived of their share in the Delphic sanctuary and in the Greek assembly, and their votes were given by the Amphictyons to the Macedonians.”
- “Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals … at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics.”
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
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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.