Thucydides, a Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, writes that the Spartan king Pleistoanax lived on Mt.

* 459 BC: Pleistoanax succeeds his father Pleistarchus as king of Sparta.

* Pleistoanax ( Agaid king r. 458 – 401 BC ) and Agis II ( Eurypontid king r. 427 – 400 BC ), co-kings of Sparta.

* Pausanias succeeds his father Pleistoanax as Agiad king of Sparta.

* Pleistoanax succeeds his father Pleistarchus as king of Sparta.

Pausanias was also the father of Pleistoanax, who later became king, and Cleomenes.

He was the son of the Agiad king Pleistoanax.

* After hearing that the Spartan army had accepted bribes from Pericles, Pleistoanax, the King of Sparta, is impeached by the citizens of Sparta, but flees to exile in Arcadia.

* Nicias, the leader of the aristocratic and peace party in Athens and Pleistoanax, King of Sparta, negotiate the Peace of Nicias between Athens and Sparta, which brings a temporary end to the Peloponnesian War.

Nicodemes of Sparta, regent for King Pleistoanax, leads an army of 11, 500 hoplites into Boeotia to help Thebes put down a rebellion by Phocis.

The negotiations were begun by Pleistoanax, King of Sparta, and the Athenian general Nicias.

These representatives were, for Sparta, the kings Pleistoanax and Agis II, Pleistolas, Damagetus, Chionis, Metagenes, Acanthus, Daithus, Ischagoras, Philocharidas, Zeuxidas, Antiphus, Tellis, Alcindas, Empedias, Menas, and Laphilus.

Nicias, and Pleistoanax, King of Sparta, negotiated in 421 BC the Peace of Nicias between Athens and Sparta, which brought a temporary end to the Peloponnesian War.

When the Phocians made war on the cities of Doris -- the traditional homeland of Doric Greeks — the Doric Sparta sent a relief force under the command of Nicomedes, son of Cleombrotus, acting as regent for his under-age nephew, King Pleistoanax.

Gylippus (; was a Spartan general of the 5th century BC ; he was the son of Cleandridas, who was the adviser of King Pleistoanax and had been expelled from Sparta for accepting Athenian bribes in 446 BC and fled to Thurii, a pan-Hellenic colony then being founded in the instep of Italy with Athenian help and participation.

Pleistoanax ( Greek: Πλειστοάναξ ; reigned 458 BC – 409 BC ) was an Agiad King of Sparta.

Also some believe that a more probable reason for the withdrawal of Pleistoanax and his advisor Cleandrides could be that Pericles offered good terms for a peace ( e. g. later there was a treaty between Sparta and Athens ).

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In 428 BC, Pleistoanax was recalled and restored in obedience to the Delphic oracle's advice, though some suspected he had tampered with the Pythia.

Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II () ( 444 BC – 360 BC ) was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC, during most of which time he was, in Plutarch's words, " as good as thought commander and king of all Greece ," and was for the whole of it greatly identified with his country's deeds and fortunes.

Pausanias, the second king of Sparta ( see Spartan Constitution for more information on Sparta's dual monarchy ), was supposed to provide Lysander with reinforcements as they marched into Boeotia, yet failed to arrive in time to assist Lysander, likely because Pausanias disliked him for his brash and arrogant attitude towards the Spartan royalty and government.

This was Helen of Sparta, wife of the Greek king Menelaus.

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans ( Greeks ) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus king of Sparta.

* 491 BC: Leotychidas succeeds his cousin Demaratus as king of Sparta

* 488 BC: Leonidas I succeeds his brother Cleomenes I as king of Sparta after Cleomenes is judged insane

* 480 BC: Pleistarchus succeeds his father Leonidas I as king of Sparta.

* 476 BC: Archidamus II succeeds his grandfather Leotychides, who is banished to Tegea, as king of Sparta.

* 408 BC: The Persian king, Darius II, decides to aid Sparta in the war and makes his son Cyrus a satrap.

* 469 BC — death of Leotychides, king of Sparta

** Archidamus V, king of Sparta of the Eurypontid line

Athens is unwilling to place her forces under Sparta and its king Leonidas.

As a result, the Agiad king of Sparta, Leonidas II, gains power, supported by mercenaries.

* Archidamus II, king of Sparta

During Alexander's campaigns in the east, the Spartan king, Agis III sent a force to Crete in 333 BC with the aim of securing the island for Sparta.

Agamemnon inherited Mycenae and Menelaus became king of Sparta.

* 760s BC — Archilaus, king of Sparta, dies.

In Greek mythology, Menelaus (, Menelaos ) was a legendary king of Mycenaean ( pre-Dorian ) Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, and a central figure in the Trojan War.

* 520 BC — Cleomenes I succeeds Anaxandridas as king of Sparta.

* 510 BC — Demaratus succeeds Ariston as king of Sparta.

** August 11 – Leonidas I, king of Sparta

** Leotychides, king of Sparta ( b. c. 545 BC )