Cleombrotus ( el, Κλεόμβροτος, ''Kleómbrotos''),
regent of Sparta between 480 and 479 BC. He was a member of the
Agiad dynasty, the son of
Anaxandridas II and the brother of
Cleomenes I,
Dorieus and of
Leonidas I
Leonidas I (; grc-gre, Λεωνίδας; died 19 September 480 BC) was a king of the Greek city-state of Sparta, and the 17th of the Agiad line, a dynasty which claimed descent from the mythological demigod Heracles. Leonidas I was son of King ...
. 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
The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of th ...
. Cleombrotus was in command of the Spartan and Peloponnesian troops who built the wall across the
Isthmus of Corinth
The Isthmus of Corinth ( Greek: Ισθμός της Κορίνθου) is the narrow land bridge which connects the Peloponnese peninsula with the rest of the mainland of Greece, near the city of Corinth. The word " isthmus" comes from the An ...
that was intended to keep the Persian army out of the Peloponnese. He died soon after returning to Sparta from the Isthmus.
He was the father of
Pausanias and the Spartan general Nicomedes.
[Thucydides I,107.]
Notes
References
*Herodotus ''The Greek–Persian War'' (Osiris, Budapest, 2000), .
Rulers of Sparta
5th-century BC Spartans
Spartans of the Greco-Persian Wars
Regents
Agiad dynasty
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