As punishment for suspected dealings with the Persians and for conspiring to seize power in Sparta by a helot uprising, this man was walled up in the Temple of Athena and starved to death.
As punishment for suspected dealings with the Persians and for conspiring to seize power in Sparta by a helot uprising, this man was walled up in the Temple of Athena and starved to death. The son of King Cleombrotus, he acted as regent for the son of Leonidas after the latter's death and served the Greeks well in the Persian Wars, commanding them in their victory at Plataea and capture of Byzantium. For 10 points name this Spartan, also the name of the first century geographer and author of a Description of Greece.
As punishment for suspected dealings with the Persians and for conspiring to seize power in Sparta by a helot uprising, this man was walled up in the Temple of Athena and starved to death.
Pausanias