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- Flourished:
- 5th century bc
- Flourished:
- c.550 BCE - c.451 BCE
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Demaratus
king of Sparta
Demaratus (flourished 5th century bc) was a king of Sparta, together with Cleomenes I, who frustrated Cleomenesâ designs on both Athens and Aegina. He was consequently dethroned by Cleomenes on a false charge of illegitimacy, upon which he fled to Persia and was given some small cities in northwestern Asia Minor, which his descendants held in Xenophonâs time. The historian Herodotus told several stories of Demaratusâ advice and warnings to Xerxes, whom he accompanied on his expedition to Greece in 480.
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