{"slug": "leotychidas-ii", "label": "Leotychidas II", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leotychidas_II", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360151", "qid": "Q360151", "description": "Eurypontid king of Sparta from 491 to 476 BC", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-544, -468], "span_label": ["545 BCE", "469 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Leotychidas", "Leotychides"], "related": [{"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aegina", "label": "Aegina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ionia", "label": "Ionia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thessaly", "label": "Thessaly", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "themistocles", "label": "Themistocles", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arcadia-region", "label": "Arcadia (region)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tegea", "label": "Tegea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "delphi", "label": "Delphi", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -544, "year_label": "545 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Approximate date – Leotychides, king of Sparta (d. c.469 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1255771799#Births", "title": "545 BC", "revid": 1255771799, "section": "Births"}}, {"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": -486, "year_label": "487 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The island of Aegina and the city of Athens go to war. The island has earned the enmity of Athens by earlier submitting to the Persians. The Spartan King, Leotychidas, tries unsuccessfully to arrange a truce in the war.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129368#Greece", "title": "487 BC", "revid": 1350129368, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -478, "year_label": "479 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 27", "text": "August 27 – Meanwhile at sea, the Persians are defeated by a Greek fleet headed by Leotychidas of Sparta and Xanthippus of Athens in the Battle of Mycale, on the coast of Ionia in Asia Minor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129373#Greece", "title": "479 BC", "revid": 1350129373, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -476, "year_label": "477 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Spartan co-ruler Leotychides and the Athenian leader Themistocles lead a fleet and army to reoccupy northern Greece and to punish the aristocratic family of the Aleuads for having aided the Persians. Leotychides is caught accepting a bribe during the operations in Thessaly.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129381#Greece", "title": "477 BC", "revid": 1350129381, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -475, "year_label": "476 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Convicted in Sparta on the charge of accepting a bribe from the Aleudae family whilst leading an expedition to Thessaly against the family for their collaboration with the Persians, the Spartan King Leotychidas flees to the temple of Athena Alea in Tegea, Arcadia. A sentence of exile is passed upon him; his house is razed, and his grandson, Archidamus II, ascends the Spartan throne in his place.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129376#Greece", "title": "476 BC", "revid": 1350129376, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -468, "year_label": "469 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Leotychides, king of Sparta (b. c.545 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129352#Deaths", "title": "469 BC", "revid": 1350129352, "section": "Deaths"}}]}