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Pausanias: Quick Facts

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Died Between 470 BCE and 465 BCE • Sparta • Greece
Role In Battle of Plataea • Greco-Persian Wars
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Gylippus
Spartan general
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Leotychides
king of Sparta
Jacques-Louis David: Leonidas at Thermopylae
Leonidas
king of Sparta
Agesilaus II; Pharnabazus
Agesilaus II
king of Sparta
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Cleomenes III
king of Sparta
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Lysander
Greek military leader
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Brasidas
Spartan military officer
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Agis II
king of Sparta
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Archidamus II
king of Sparta
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Archidamus III
king of Sparta
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Agis III
king of Sparta
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Archidamus IV
king of Sparta
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Mardonius
Persian general
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Aristides The Just
Aristides The Just
Greek statesman
Agis IV
Agis IV
king of Sparta
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Nabis
ruler of Sparta
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Cleomenes I
king of Sparta
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Archidamus V
king of Sparta
Demaratus, bronze bust; in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
Demaratus
king of Sparta