Anaxander or Anaxandros ( grc-gre, Ἀνάξανδρος) was the 12th

Agiad The Agiad dynasty was one of the two royal families of Sparta, a powerful city-state of Ancient Greece. The Agiads were seniors to the other royal house, the Eurypontids, with whom they had an enduring rivalry. Their hypothetical founder was Agis ...

dynasty

King King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the ...

Sparta Sparta (Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta referred ...

(ruled c. 640–615 BC). He was the son of King Eurycrates and father of King

Eurycratides Eurycratides ( grc-gre, Εὐρυκρατίδης, "wide ruler") was the thirteenth List of kings of Sparta, king of Sparta from the Agiad dynasty. He succeeded his father Anaxander around 615 BC and reigned during a devastating period of war wit ...

. His grandson was King

Leon of Sparta Leon ( grc-gre, Λέων) was the 14th Agiad dynasty King of Sparta, ruling from 590 BC to 560 BC. Name ''Leon'' means "lion". The grandson of Leon had a similar name: Leonidas I, Leonidas. Biography Leon is mentioned in the seventh book of ...

. Anaxander is mentioned by famous persons, including

Tyrtaeus Tyrtaeus (; grc-gre, Τυρταῖος ''Tyrtaios''; fl. mid-7th century BC) was a Greek elegiac poet from Sparta. He wrote at a time of two crises affecting the city: a civic unrest threatening the authority of kings and elders, later recalled i ...

(a poet) and

Pausanias (geographer) Pausanias ( /pɔːˈseɪniəs/; grc-gre, Παυσανίας; c. 110 – c. 180) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. He is famous for his ''Description of Greece'' (, ), a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece ...

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology The ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1849, originally published 1844 under a slightly different title) is an encyclopedia/biographical dictionary. Edited by William Smith, the dictionary spans three volumes and 3,700 p ...

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