- Cleombrotus (regent)
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Cleombrotus (Κλεόμβροτος), regent of Sparta between 480 and 479 BC. He was a member of the Agiad family, the son of Anaxandridas II and the brother of Cleomenes I, Dorieus and of Leonidas I. When the latter died, he became the tutor of his nephew Pleistarchus, son of Leonidas, and leader of the Greek infantry at the beginning of the second phase of the Greco-Persian Wars. He was the father of Pausanias and the Spartan general Nicomedes[1].
References
- ^ Thucydides I,107.
Categories:- Rulers of Sparta
- 5th-century BC Greek people
- Ancient Greek people stubs
- Greek royalty stubs
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