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Leotychidas II

Eurypontid king of Sparta from 491 to 476 BC

7 dated entries naming Leotychidas II, drawn from 7 separate years between 545 BCE and 469 BCE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Leotychidas, Leotychides in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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6th century BC

  • 545 BCEApproximate date – Leotychides, king of Sparta (d. c.469 BC)source

5th century BC

  • 491 BCECleomenes 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.source
  • 487 BCEThe 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.source
  • 479 BCEAugust 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.source
  • 477 BCEThe 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.source
  • 476 BCEConvicted 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.source
  • 469 BCELeotychides, king of Sparta (b. c.545 BC)source

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