Pausanias son of Cleombrotus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Pausanias · king of Sparta
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Orations
Spartan regent and victor of the Battle of Plataea, killed by the ephors
so that Pausanias son of Cleombrotus, the victor at Plataea, they wished to cast into prison, and when he fled for refuge into the temple of Athena, they killed him there;
The Histories
Spartan regent and commander of the allied Greek army at Plataea, who orders troop movements, prays to Hera, wins the decisive victory, protects a suppliant woman, refuses to mutilate Mardonius's corpse, and stages a banquet contrasting Persian luxury with Spartan simplicity.
Pausanias, however, answered him as follows:
Pausanias and Euryanax were outraged that Amompharetus disobeyed them.
” In this way, it is said, Pausanias spoke to the generals of the Greeks.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Spartan general placed in command of the allied Greek fleet after the Persian retreat, leading campaigns to Cyprus and Byzantium.
And they made an expedition against Cyprus, and subdued the greater part of it;
Now Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus, was sent out from Lacedaemon as general of the Greeks with twenty ships from the Peloponnese;