Cleombrotos (son of Anaxandridas)

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Cleombrotos ( Greek Κλεόμβροτος Cleómbrotos ; † 480 BC ), the son of Anaxandridas II , was a Spartan military leader during the Second Persian War . He was a half-brother of Cleomenes I and the youngest brother of Dorieus and Leonidas I. He is sometimes referred to as the twin brother of Leonidas. Cleombrotos had two sons, Pausanias and Nicomedes .

When Leonidas at the Battle of Thermopylae in August 480 BC He was succeeded by his young son Pleistarchus . Cleombrotos became his guardian. He was immediately sent with an army to the Isthmus of Corinth . There he made the Skironische Strasse unusable and built a defensive wall. Herodotus says that there was an eclipse of the sun during a sacrifice that caused Cleombrotus to return to Sparta; he died a short time later. Since the (in Greece partial) solar eclipse on October 2, 480 BC However, it is assumed that Cleombrotus took the victory over the Persians in the Battle of Salamis as an opportunity to withdraw.

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  • Herodotus , Histories , 4, 81; 5, 32; 5, 41; 7, 205; 8, 71; 9, 10; 9, 64; 9, 78.
  • Thucydides , History of the Peloponnesian War , 1, 107.

Individual evidence

  1. F. Espenak: NASA Eclipse Web Site - Annular Solar Eclipse of -479 October 02. Retrieved on August 24, 2017 (English).