Cléomène Ier

See also: Cléomène

Cléomène Ier was King de Sparte of 520 approximately with 489.

Resulting from the family of the Agiades, it succeeds his father Anaxandridas II towards 520 on the throne of Sparte, and controls jointly with the second king, Démarate, until in 492. The association of the two sovereigns is not without posing problems because Démarate often slows down Cléomène.

This last affirms the preeminence of Sparte while intervening of many times in the interior matters of Athens. In 510, it helps the Alcméonides to reverse the tyranny of Hippias but then seeks to support the aristocratic party of Isagoras against the democrats taken along by Clisthène. Twice, in 507 and 506, it tries, in vain, to put an end to the democratic experiment installation by Clisthène.

At the time of the revolt of the Greek of Ionie, it refuses any help of Sparte with Aristagoras, the Tyran of Milet. In 494, it inflicts with Argos a defeat with Sepéia, thus reinforcing the power Spartan in the Peloponnese. In 492, it drives out Démarate, which takes refuge in Perse.

He dies in 489. Struck madness, it would be committed suicide.

It has as a girl Gorgô, one of the most famous women of ancient Greece.

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