Acrotatus
historical figure · 5 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Acrotatus the son of Areus · the young Acrotatus
in the texts
Pyrrhus
Son of Areus with whom Chilonis, Cleonymus's wife, falls in love.
but she had fallen desperately in love with Acrotatus the son of Areus, a young man in the flower of his age, and thus rendered his marriage distressing to Cleonymus, since he loved her, and at the same time disgraceful;
but the young Acrotatus saw the danger, and running through the city with three hundred men got round behind Ptolemy without being seen by him, owing to some depressions in the ground, and at last fell upon his rear ranks and forced them to turn about and fight with him.
The elderly men and the host of women watched the brilliant exploit of Acrotatus.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Lacedaemonian officer and grand-nephew of Cleonymus, involved in the story told by Plutarch.
A well-known story told by Plutarch (‘Pyrrhus,’ 26) of the relations between a brilliant Lacedæmonian officer, Acrotatus, and Chelidonis, the wife of Cleonymus, and of the way in which the old men of Sparta applauded these relations and invoked blessings on the offspring of Chelidonis, does assuredly suggest that, in that old-fashioned and never very delicate society, some institution like that of …
Agis and Cleomenes
Royal ancestors in the Agiad genealogy, one who died before his father, another who fell in battle at Corinth's son later slain at Megalopolis by Aristodemus.
Acrotatus also was defeated and slain at Megalopolis, by the tyrant Aristodemus, leaving his wife with child;
Agesipolis, dying without issue, was succeeded by a younger brother Cleombrotus, and Cleombrotus, in turn, had two sons, Agesipolis and Cleomenes, of whom Agesipolis reigned only a short time and left no sons, while Cleomenes, who became king after him, lived to lose his elder son Acrotatus, but left behind him a younger son Cleonymus Cleonymus, however, did not come to the throne, but Areus, who …
Apophthegmata Laconica
A Spartan who refused his parents' demand to join an unjust action, arguing that loyalty to the laws and justice of his country now outweighed obedience to his parents.
Acrotatus, when his parents commanded him to join in some unjust action, refused for some time;
Lacaenarum Apophthegmata
Grandson of Gyrtias; as a boy he was beaten nearly to death in a fight, and later died in Crete, prompting his grandmother's sayings on honourable death.
Gyrtias, when on a time Acrotatus, her grandson, in a fight with other boys received many blows, and was brought home for dead, and the family and friends were all wailing, said, Will you not stop your noise?
When a messenger came from Crete bringing the news of the death of Acrotatus, she said, When he had come to the enemy, was he not bound either to be slain by them or to slay them?