Damaratos

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Damaratos ( dor . Δαμάρατος, Dāmárātos ; ion . Δημάρατος, Dēmárātos ) was a Spartan king of the Eurypontid dynasty from approx. 515 to approx. 491 BC. Chr.

Damaratos is the son of King Ariston and his third wife. He was married to Perkalus, whom he kidnapped Leotychidas II . After the death of his father, Damaratos took over the government. In 504 he was probably the only Spartan king to win the chariot race at the Olympic Games .

In 506 BC An attack by fellow king Cleomenes on Athens failed due to the intrigues of Damaratus and the Corinthians . Not long afterwards, Cleomenes wanted to take action against Aegina , but Damaratus again thwarted his intentions. In return, Cleomenes, together with Leotychidas, achieved that Damaratos was no longer recognized and deposed as the rightful son of Ariston by influencing the Ephors and bribing the Pythia in Delphi. Damaratos was not rehabilitated when the intrigue was exposed a little later. Damaratus left Sparta , also offended by his successor Leotychidas, under the pretext of a trip to Delphi and fled to the Persian king Dareios I , who gave him large possessions in Mysia .

In 480 Damaratus accompanied Xerxes I on the train against Hellas. His role as advisor, however, is legendary, although Herodotus will have relied on the so-called Damaratos source (an oral tradition that goes back to Damaratos). As a reward for his services he received after the campaign the cities of Teuthrania , Pergamon , Halisarna and Gambreion as hereditary property. After Plutarch , Damaratus was still alive when Themistocles came to the Persian king in Susa in 464.

literature

  • Daphne Hereward: The flight of Damaratos . In: Rheinisches Museum 101, 1958, pp. 239–249 ( PDF ).
  • Karl-Wilhelm Welwei : Damaratos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 .
  • Mischa Meier : Kleomenes I., Damaratos and the Spartan Ephorate. In: Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies 2, 1999, pp. 89-108 ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herodotus, Historien 6, 61-63.
  2. ^ Herodotus, Histories 6, 65.
  3. ↑ Herodotus, Histories 6, 64.
  4. ↑ Herodotus, Histories 6, 70.
  5. ↑ Herodotus, Historien 5, 70, 72, 74-75.
  6. ↑ Herodotus, Histories 6, 61, 65-66, 73.
  7. ↑ Herodotus, Historien 6, 70; 7, 3.
  8. ↑ Herodotus, Historien 7, 101-104; 8, 65.
  9. ↑ Herodotus, Historien 2, 156-157, 166.
  10. ↑ Herodotus, Historien 1, 404; 476.
  11. ↑ Xenophon, Hellenika 3, 1, 6.
  12. ^ Plutarch, Themistocles 29.
predecessor Office successor
Ariston King of Sparta
515–491 BC Chr. 		Leotychidas II
personal data
SURNAME Damaratos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demaratos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spartan king around (510–491 BC)
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.