{"slug": "cleomenes-i", "label": "Cleomenes I", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleomenes_I", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44005", "qid": "Q44005", "description": "Agiad King of Sparta from c.524 BC to c.490 BC", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [-515, -488], "span_label": ["516 BCE", "489 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aegean-sea", "label": "Aegean Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "samos", "label": "Samos", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "argos-peloponnese", "label": "Argos, Peloponnese", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aegina", "label": "Aegina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "leonidas-i", "label": "Leonidas I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "delphi", "label": "Delphi", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -515, "year_label": "516 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cleomenes I of Sparta receives an embassy from Maeandrius of Samos asking for help to expel the tyrant Syloson, a puppet of the Persian Empire, which is at the time subjugating the city-states of the eastern Aegean Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340379939#Greece", "title": "516 BC", "revid": 1340379939, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -509, "year_label": "510 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Hippias, tyrant of Athens, is expelled by his people with the assistance of Cleomenes, King of Sparta", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129120#Europe", "title": "510 BC", "revid": 1350129120, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": -498, "year_label": "499 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Aristagoras seeks help with the revolt against the Persians from Cleomenes I, king of Sparta, but the Spartans are unwilling to respond.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129380#Greece", "title": "499 BC", "revid": 1350129380, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -493, "year_label": "494 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Spartan king, Cleomenes I inflicts a severe defeat on Argos at Sepeia near Tiryns (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362845788#Greece", "title": "494 BC", "revid": 1362845788, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -490, "year_label": "491 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Greek city of Aegina, fearing the loss of trade, submits to Persia. The Spartan king, Cleomenes I tries to punish Aegina for its submission to the Persians, but the other Spartan king, Demaratus, thwarts him.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364322520#Greece", "title": "491 BC", "revid": 1364322520, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -490, "year_label": "491 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cleomenes I engineers the deposing of Spartan co-ruler Demaratus (and his replacement by Cleomenes’ cousin Leotychidas) by bribing the oracle at Delphi to announce that this action was divine will. The two Spartan kings successfully capture the Persian collaborators in Aegina.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364322520#Greece", "title": "491 BC", "revid": 1364322520, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -489, "year_label": "490 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Cleomenes I is forced to flee Sparta when his plot against Demaratus is discovered, but the Spartans allow him to return when he begins gathering an army in the surrounding territories. However, by this time he has become insane, and the Spartans put him in prison. Shortly after, he commits suicide. He is succeeded as King of Sparta by a member of the Agiad house, his half-brother, Leonidas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129378#Greece", "title": "490 BC", "revid": 1350129378, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -488, "year_label": "489 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Cleomenes I, king of Sparta (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598383#Deaths", "title": "489 BC", "revid": 1360598383, "section": "Deaths"}}]}