Pleistoanax
Sign in to savePleistoanax, also spelled Plistoanax, () was Agiad king of Sparta from 458 to 409 BC. He was the leader of the peace party in Sparta at a time of violent confrontations against Athens for the hegemony over Greece.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Pleistoanax
- Royalty.succession
- King of Sparta
- Royalty.reign
- 458 – 409 BC
- Royalty.predecessor
- Pleistarchus
- Royalty.successor
- Pausanias
- Royalty.birth_place
- Sparta, Ancient Greece
- Royalty.death_date
- 409 BC
- Royalty.death_place
- Sparta, Ancient Greece
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Sparta
- Place of death
- Sparta
- Child
- Pausanias
- Father
- Pausanias
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Position held
- strategos
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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- date of death
- 0408-00-00
- date of birth
- 0500-01-01
- time period
- classical antiquity
- name in native language
- Πλειστοάναξ
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Family background
- Reigns
- First reign (459–445 BC)
- Exile (445–427 BC)
- Second reign (427–409 BC)
- References
- Bibliography
- Ancient sources
- Modern sources
Pleistoanax, also spelled Plistoanax, () was Agiad king of Sparta from 458 to 409 BC. He was the leader of the peace party in Sparta at a time of violent confrontations against Athens for the hegemony over Greece.
The son of Pausanias, Pleistoanax was still a minor in 458 BC, so his uncle Nicomedes acted as regent. His first recorded action was the invasion of Athens in 446 BC as part of the First Peloponnesian War (460–445 BC), but he chose instead to negotiate with Pericles a settlement that became the Thirty Years' Peace. However, Pleistoanax was sued in Sparta for his failure to take Athens and went into exile in Arcadia to avoid punishment. He lived on the sacred ground of Zeus in Mt. Lykaion for the next 18 years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pleistoanax” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.