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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 795 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cleomenes had everything to hope, and the Ephors everything to fear, from the association of Archidamus in his councils.
		Through the influence thus gained, Cleomenes was permitted to continue the war ; he took Leuctra, and gained a decisive victory over Aratus beneath its walls, owing to the impetuosity of Lydiadas, who was killed in the battle.
		From the defeat of Sellasia, Cleomenes returned to Sparta, and having advised the citizens to submit to Antigonus, he fled to his ally, Ptolemy Eu-ergetes, at Alexandria, where his mother and children were already residing as hostages.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0804.html (855 words)

	Cleomenes III - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		CLEOMENES III., the son and successor of Leonidas II., reigned about 235-219 B.C. Ile made a determined attempt to reform the social condition of Sparta along the lines laid down by Agis IV., whose widow Agiatis he married; at the same time he aimed at restoring Sparta's hegemony in the Peloponnese.
		After twice defeating the forces of the Achaean League in Arcadia, near Mount Lycaeum and at Leuctra,he strengthened his position by assassinating four of the ephors, abolishing the ephorate, which had usurped the supreme power, and banishing some eighty of the leading oligarchs.
		Both as general and as politician Cleomenes was one of Sparta's greatest men, and with him perished her last hope of recovering her ancient supermacy in Greece.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Cleomenes_III (280 words)

	Cleomenes III Summary
		Cleomenes III was the son of King Leonidas of Sparta.
		Cleomenes III was the son of Leonidas II.
		Cleomenes was deposed and was killed in exile in Egypt in 219 BC.
	www.bookrags.com /Cleomenes_III (1235 words)

	Cleomenes III - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At home his reforms were revolutionary: the kingship was made the supreme power, the ephorate was abolished, and the citizenship was widely extended, apparently to decrease the danger of discontent and to ally the people with the king.
		Cleomenes came to his downfall suddenly in 222 BC (or possibly 221 BC) when the Achaean League, allied with Antigonus III of Macedon, routed the Spartan army.
		Cleomenes fled to Egypt to the protection of his patron, Ptolemy III.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Cleomenes3.html (317 words)

	Cleomenes I Summary
		Cleomenes was still king when Aristagoras, the tyrant of Miletus, came to Sparta to request help for the Ionian Revolt in 499 BC.
		Cleomenes overthrew Demaratus, after first bribing the oracle at Delphi to announce that this was the divine will, and replaced him with Leotychides.
		Around 490 BC Cleomenes was forced to flee Sparta when his plot against Demaratus was discovered, but the Spartans allowed him to return when he began gathering an army in the surrounding territories.
	www.bookrags.com /Cleomenes_I (1038 words)

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		Philip II was prevented from marching south at Thermopylae by Phocian troops and allies.
		Revolt of Alexander of Corinth against Antigonus II Gonatas on the death of Craterus the Younger.
		Demetrius II Nicator was captured by the Parthians, and Antiochus VII became Seleucid king.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=gre009 (3385 words)

	222. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Antigonus formed a new Hellenic League and crushed Cleomenes at the Battle of Sellasia (222).
		When he was slain in Egypt, the Spartans nevertheless restored the dual kingship.
		Perseus became king of Macedon on the death of his father Philip V. He had already persuaded Philip to execute his pro-Roman brother Demetrius, and now Eumenes II of Pergamum laid charges against him at Rome.
	www.bartleby.com /67/211.html (613 words)

	Lecture 6: The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy
		Finally, one of the noble clans exiled by the sons of Pisistratus, the Alemaeonids, won favor with the oracle at Delphi and used its support to persuade Sparta to attack the Athenian tyranny.
		Led by Cleomenes I, the Spartans marched into Athenian territory in 510 B.C. Hippias was deposed and fled to Persia.
		Cleomenes' friend Isagoras held the leading position in Athens after the withdrawal of the Spartan troops, but he was not unopposed.
	www.historyguide.org /ancient/lecture6b.html (2724 words)

	Egypt_Summary
		Cleomenes was assassinated, and Ptolemy I consolidated his position.
		His successor, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, was school in a variety of subjects including zoology and geometry by a group of tutors beginning with Philetas of Cos.
		Under the reign of Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II the famous Museum and Library of Alexandria were founded and constructed.
	members.tripod.com /~Kekrops/Summary/Egypt_Summary.html (468 words)

	disc sect 8
		Agis and Cleomenes claim that their goal was restore the ancient Lycurgan system (see below) in Sparta.
		Two of these factors are Sparta's xenophobia (fear of strangers) and the reforms of the kings Agis the IV and Cleomenes III.
		Agis and Cleomenes contributed to the Spartan mirage by claiming that their reforms represented a return to the 'old' way of doing things.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/macedonia/disc_sect_8.htm (1255 words)

	Antigonus III - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On the death of Demetrius II he became regent for Demetrius' son Philip (Philip V).
		The attacks of Cleomenes III on the Achaean League caused its leader, Aratus, to request help from Antigonus, who led his troops south in 224.
		In 222, Antigonus crushed Cleomenes at Sellasia in Laconea and took Corinth as his reward.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-antigons3.html (281 words)

	Hellenistic World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Boeotians were defeated by Sparta under Agesilaus II at the battle of Coronea.
		(Hellenic League) was established by Philip II and agreed on war against Persia to avenge the wrongs of Xerxes.
		242 -- Leonidas II was deposed as king by Agis IV 241 -- Attalus I became ruler of Pergamum.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/hellenis.htm (2179 words)

	Greatest emporium in the world
		Among his advisers were: Cleomenes of Naukratis, the prominent businessman and engineer; Deinokrates of Rhodes, the famous civic engineer; Numenius, the stone-mason and his brother Hyponomos.
		With their expertise and thorough knowledge of the geographical layout as well as of the climatic and marine conditions (namely the western and northern winds and the west-to-east sea current), they wisely chose a site west of the Delta.
		Cleomenes took full advantage of his important position and established a monopoly of international trade in grain throughout the Mediterranean with Alexandria as his base.
	www.unesco.org /csi/pub/source/alex5.htm (2691 words)

	The Great Library of Alexandria
		He left his administrator, Cleomenes, to build the new city as he made further conquests but soon Alexander was dead and his generals grabbed those parts of his Empire that they could.
		The king for whom he is working is not named but later authors usually identify him as Ptolemy II Philadelphus[12] who is also said to have imprisoned Demetrius after a row over the succession[13].
		The Emperor Constantius II was sympathetic towards the heresy of Arianism and after he had deposed the orthodox Christian patriarch of Alexandria, George of Cappadocia was appointed in his stead.
	www.bede.org.uk /Library2.htm (8020 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 279 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Prol.) He was the king of Sparta to whom the Jews sent the embassy mentioned in 1 Mace.
		Areus II., a posthumous son of Acrotatus, was born as king probably in 264 A. d., and died at the age of eight years.
		There was a pretender to the Macedonian crown of this name, who, with the assistance of the Illy- rians, expelled Amyntas II.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0288.html (980 words)

	Agis II
		Agis II (400/399): Spartan king from the Eurypontid house, ruled 427-400/399.
		Agis was born as the son of king Archidamus II of Sparta, and succeeded him after his death.
		He is not mentioned in our sources for 427, when the Agiad prince Cleomenes led the annual invasion of Attica; in 426, Agis is mentioned as king.
	www.livius.org /ag-ai/agis/agis_ii.html (1179 words)

	1997: THE WINTER'S TALE: Photos
		I.i: A slightly tipsy Archidamus (Vijay Iyer) effuses to Camillo (Colby McLaurin).
		III.ii: Cleomenes (Mike Simon) and Dion (Steven DeGennaro) swear on the Sword of Justice to the Officer (Nick Collins) and Leontes (Peter Rogers) that they have faithfully discharged their mission to Delphos.
		V.i: Cleomenes (Mike Simon) and Dion (Steven DeGennaro), the remnants of the Sicilian court, try to convince their monarch to re-marry.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~bkrshk/1997/pics.shtml (684 words)

	Battle of Sellasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Upon taking the throne in 235 BC after the death of Leonidas II, Cleomenes III undertook an ambitious political restoration of Sparta's power by returning to a legendary political tradition of Lycurgus.
		The Spartan phalanx, under the command of Cleomenes, was arranged on a hill named Olympus, near Sellasia, and were supported by a body of light infantry mercenaries.
		Cleomenes probably hoped for a higher tactical position that would compensate numerical inferiority: it had dug a ditch and raised the palisade all along the front line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Sellasia (528 words)

	InfoHub - Ptolemaic dynasty
		Ptolemy I died in 283 B.C. at the age of 84 and his son Ptolemy II finished the construction of the lighthouse.
		Ptolemy II was the second king of the Ptolemaic dynasty of ancient Egypt.
		Ptolemy II died in 246 B.C. His queen Arsinoe II and his son Ptolemy III became co-regents.
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	History of the Macedonian People from Ancient times to the Present - Part X, by Risto Stefov
		Sparta on the other hand, under the leadership of Cleomenes III who was unable to sit still, initiated a number of social reforms.
		Without Ptolemy's financial support, Cleomenes lost his influence and decided to stake everything on the outcome of a single battle.
		In 226 BC, Seleucus II was succeeded by his first son Seleucus III Soter who held the throne for the next three years before he was murdered by his own officers while campaigning against Attalus.
	www.maknews.com /html/articles/stefov/stefov27.html (8080 words)

	Agesipolis II
		Agesipolis II Agesipolis II Agesipolis II (d.369 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 371 to 369 BC.
		Cleombrotus was the father of Agesipolis and Cleomenes, and, Agesipolis dying without issue, Cleomenes ascended the throne.
		Agesipolis, the elder of the sons of Cleombrotus, is not a striking figure in history, and was succeeded by his younger brother Cleomenes.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/AgesipolisII.html (181 words)

	Telesilla
		Of all the deeds performed by women for the community none is more famous than the struggle against Cleomenes for Argos (494 B.C.), which the women carried out at the instigation of Telesilla the poet.
		But when Cleomenes (I), king of the Spartans, having slain many Argives (but not by any means seven thousand seven hundred and seventy seven [cf.
		There, undismayed by the war cry, the women stood their ground and fought with the greatest determination, until the Spartans, reflecting that the slaughter of an army of women would be an equivocal victory and defeat at their hands would be dishonor as well as disaster, laid down their arms.
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/telesilla.html (833 words)

	Hippolytus of Rome: The Refutation of All Heresies, Book 9 (Roberts-Donaldson translation)
		What was the recent arrival (at Rome) of the strange spirit Elchasai, and that there served as a concealment of his peculiar errors his apparent adhesion to the law, when in point of fact he devotes himself to the tenets of the Gnostics, or even of the astrologists, and to the arts of sorcery.
		But Cleomenes, who had become his disciple, an alien both in way of life and habits from the Church, was wont to corroborate the (Noetian) doctrine.
		Cleomenes asserts, in common with his hand of followers, that this person is God and Father of the universe, and thus introduces among many an obscurity (of thought) such as we find in the philosophy of Heraclitus.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /text/hippolytus9.html (8451 words)

	CLEOMENES III - Online Information article about CLEOMENES III
		CLEOMENES III., the son and successor of See also:
		Macedonia, and Cleomenes, after conducting successful expeditions to See also:
		Both as general and as politician Cleomenes was one of Sparta's greatest men, and with him perished her last See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CHR_CLI/CLEOMENES_III.html (606 words)

	Chthonios (2) to Confusion * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last ...
		Kleomenes went to Athens in 508 BCE to impose a solution to the dispute over the Athenian constitution, he was subsequently trapped on the Akropolis (Acropolis) and only allowed to leave after he promised to never return to Attika (Attica); the dates given for his rule are extrapolations and should be used only as approximations.
		An Athenian general and political opponent of Perikles (Pericles); he died in 422 BCE; he was the subject of scorn and ridicule by orators and playwrights because of his humble origins and dogmatic stance on social issues.
		The second wife of Philip II of Makedon (Macedon); this marriage complicated the direct ascension of Philip’s son, Alexander (the Great) to the throne; Alexander and Philip’s first wife, Olympias, are assumed to have either killed, or arranged to have killed, Kleopatra, her son and her father.
	messagenet.com /myths/ppt/_c1003.html (3018 words)

	Cleomenes
		Cleomenes I, Agiad king of Sparta (reigned c.
		His long, activist reign was one of the half-dozen most influential on record.
		Around 494, Cleomenes invaded Argos, and by fooling the Argive army he killed about 6000 inhabitants.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Families/Family/994 (206 words)

	Chapter Clementina <i>to</i> Clever of C by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		Shakespeare himself has scarcely drawn a more affecting or harrowing picture of high-souled suffering and blighting calamity than the madness of Clementina.—Chambers: English Literature, ii.
		Cleofas (Don), the hero of a novel by Lesage, entitled Le Diable Boiteux (The Devil on Two Sticks).
		Cleomenes, the hero and title of a drama by Dryden (1692).
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1113/14615/1.html (510 words)

	Ptolemy III
		Ptolemy II (ii) several of the epistates named in these documents are attested in both high numbered and low numbered years, e.g.
		Ptolemy II As to the literary evidence, it seems to be generally accepted (e.g.
		While Berenice II is not explicitly named as their mother she is the only option known to us, and the presence of these two sons in the exedra in association with her tends to support this view.
	www.geocities.com /christopherjbennett/ptolemies/ptolemy_iii.htm (3548 words)

	Index of names: Sp
		308/9_ Areus succeeds Cleomenes II as king of Sparta.
		242/10 King Leonidas II of Sparta is deposed by Agis.
		229/7_ Cleomenes of Sparta seizes Belbina, on the border with Megalopolis.
	www.attalus.org /names/sp.html (2491 words)

	Ancient Greek Online library \| Erato by Herodotus \| page 14
		Cleomenes now, being resolved to have his revenge upon
		Cleomenes was to lend his aid to make
		Perialla, the prophetess, to give the answer which Cleomenes wished.
	www.greektexts.com /library/Herodotus/Erato/eng/174.html (850 words)

	Cleomenes I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		B.C. In accordance with Sparta’s policy of helping oligarchies in other states at the expense of the tyrants or the people, Cleomenes joined the Athenians in ousting the tyrant Hippias, but to Cleomenes’ dismay Cleisthenes, the principal Athenian aristocrat, sided with the people and took the power (510
		The second time Corinth checkmated Sparta by refusing to help in an attack that would have disturbed the balance of power.
		Cleomenes’ reputation for ruthlessness is due chiefly to his attack (c.494
	www.bartleby.com /65/cl/Cleomenes1.html (170 words)

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