Euryanax

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Euryanax ( old Gr . Εὐρυάναξ = ruling ) was the son of the Spartan prince Dorieus from the house of the Agiads . His father left Sparta when his half-brother Cleomenes I became king, because he himself had expected to ascend the throne and could not bear that Cleomenes rules over him. He renounced all claims to the government and therefore was named Cleomenes I in 490 BC. BC without male descendants died instead of Euryanax, the son of the second eldest prince, Leonidas , the younger brother of Dorieus, his successor.

480 BC Leonidas I fell in the battle of Thermopylae against the Persians and his son Pleistarchus succeeded him. Since he was still a child, Pausanias led in 479 BC. The Spartan army in the battle of Plataiai . Second Spartan general was Euryanax. The Greeks won the battle and thus stopped the Persian advance.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herodotus , Historien , 5, 42.
  2. ^ Pausanias , Journeys in Greece , 3, 4, 7.
  3. ↑ Herodotus, Historien , 9, 10; 9, 53; 9, 55.
personal data
SURNAME Euryanax
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Εὐρυάναξ (ancient Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spartan general
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.