Author(s):
Welwei, Karl-Wilhelm (Bochum)
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Ameling, Walter (Jena)
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Meister, Klaus (Berlin)
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Neudecker, Richard (Rome)
(Κλεομένης;
Kleoménēs). [German version] [1] Athenian, rejected the Spartan terms of peace in 404 BC Athenian who rejected the Spartan terms of peace in the popular assembly in 404 BC (Plut. Lysandros 14). Welwei, Karl-Wilhelm (Bochum) [German version] [2] Member of a Spartan court of arbitration concerning Salamis at the end of the 7th cent. BC Spartan, member of a Spartan court of arbitration that allegedly awarded the island of Salamis to the Athenians at the end of the 7th cent. BC (Plut. Solon 10). Welwei, Karl-Wilhelm (Bochum) [German version] [3] C. I. Spartan king, probably from 520 BC on Spartan king, Agiad ( Agiads), son of Anaxandridas [2] by his second wife, most important representative of the Spartan leadership about 500 BC with great personal authority. C. probably established his claim to kingship (probably
c. 520) against his step-brother Dorieus [1] (Hdt. 5,42). It is not certain if he was already militarily active in 519 at Plataeae (Hdt. 6,108; Thuc. 3,68). He rejected a plea for help by the Samian Maeandrius
c. 516 (Hdt. 3,148) and in
c. 514 had close contact with Scythian delegates (Hdt. 6,84). His intervention in Athens in 510, which led to the toppling of the Peisistratids, was significant (Hdt. 5,64f.). However, C.'s plan to support his Athenian friend Isagoras [1] in 508/7 with a small force approved by Sparta against the refor…