CLEOMENES III

c.260–219 b.c., king of Sparta (235–221 b.c.). He was probably the most energetic king Sparta ever had, a conscious imitator of Agis III (see under Agis). In his determined effort to restore the prestige of the city, he began (227 b.c.) a war against the Achaean League and was successful in many battles. 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 b.c. (or possibly 221 b.c.) 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. Imprisoned by Ptolemy's successor, he escaped, but, failing in an attempt to stir up a revolt in Alexandria, he committed suicide.

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Three Aeginetan Odes of Pindar: A Commentary on Nemean V, Nemean III and Pythian VIII
Book by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Aegina Island (Greece)--In Literature, Games In Literature, Laudatory Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Mythology, Greek, In Literature, Odes--History And Criticism, Pindar--Criticism And Interpretation
...PINDAR A COMMENTARY ON NEMEAN V, NEMEAN III, PYTHIAN VIII BY ILJA LEONARD PFEIJFFER...Batava. Supolemcwturn. Leiden : Boston : Ki?Iii Brill Fruhcr Sclu-i/trnn ihr I rilH...Pindar : a commentary on Nemean V, Nemean III, Pythian VIII / hy Hja Leonard Pfeijtrer...
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Hellenistic and Roman Sparta: A Tale of Two Cities
Book by Paul Cartledge, Antony Spawforth; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Sparta (Extinct City)--History
...Reform-or revolution? Agis IV and Cleomenes III 38 5 Sparta...the way that his Agiad successor Cleomenes III did. The surviving narrative sources...Reform-or revolution? Agis IV and Cleomenes III The lives of Agis IV (Eurypontid...
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Spartan Women
Book by Sarah B. Pomeroy; Oxford University Press, 2002
Subjects: Sparta (Extinct City)--Social Conditions, Women--Greece--Sparta (Extinct City)
...program (agoge) was fully revived by Cleomenes III: whether the girls program was...philosophy was directed toward men. Cleomenes III invited Sphaerus, a disciple of...Ages. 8.7, Plut. Ages. 19.5-6. Cleomenes III, the heroic wife of Panteus fled...
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The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education & Culture in Ancient Sparta
Book by Nigel M. Kennell; University of North Carolina Press, 1995
Subjects: Education, Greek, Education--Greece--Sparta (Extinct City)
...revival. This revival took place during the reign of Cleomenes III 235- 222 B.C. , the revolutionary king who put the...excavators to 178 B.C. but probably better associated with Cleomenes III. 4 As we would expect, the edifice was built in...
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Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World - Vol. 1
Book by Frank N. Magill; Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998
Subjects: World History
...Clement I, 210 Cleomenes, 214 Cleopatra VII...Younger, 770 Sesostris III, 774 Shapur II, 778...Thucydides, 885 Thutmose III, 889 Tiberius, 892...son and successor of Amenhotep III (also known as Amenophis III...
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Self-Assessment in Dryden's 'Amphitryon.'
Journal article by Candy B.K. Schille; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 36, 1996
Subjects: Amphytrion, or the Two Sosias (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Dryden, John--Philosophy, English drama (Comedy)--Political aspects, English drama--Restoration, 1660-1700, English literature, 1603-1700 (17th century)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...with a Title, and the Eloquence of ten Thousand Pounds a year" (III.i.137-40). Finally, as well as such specific pointings to social...of Charles II,(8) of both Charles and James,(9) and of William III.(10) Hercules, too, has been identified as James.(11) Amphitryon...
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At the Crossroads: Gendered Desire, Political Occasion, and Dryden and Lee's Oedipus
Journal article by Candy B.K. Schille; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 40, 2004
Subjects: Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Dryden, John--Criticism and interpretation, Lee, Nathaniel--Criticism and interpretation, Oedipus (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Restoration age literature--Criticism and interpretation
...political commentaries but "plain stories" (Cleomenes 79). Dramatically, the collaborators would...Oedipus as well as writing Acts I and III ("Vindication" 344), it is worthwhile...U of California P, 1972. 1-36. --. Cleomenes, the Spartan Heroe: A Tragedy. The Works...
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Bandello's "Timbreo and Fenicia" and the Winter's Tale
Journal article by Thomas E. Mussio; Comparative Drama, Vol. 34, 2000
Subjects: Bandello, Matteo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Italian drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Italian literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...with his desire to hide it from himself. When he responds to Cleomenes urge, "forgive yourself" (5.1.6), he casts his actions as mere...noticed, "Paulina scolds rather than curses Leontes."(21) III. Reconciliation and Regeneration The Winters Tale shows, as...
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Dryden's Sixth Satire of Juvenal and the Sexual Politics of Monarchy
Journal article by Tanya Caldwell; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 75, 1996
Subjects: Dryden, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Juvenal--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sex in literature--Moral and ethical aspects, Translations--Political aspects, United Kingdom--History, 1603-1714 (Stuarts)
...conflation of tyranny and elective kingship as an insult to William III and to his supporters" is discussed by Steven N. Zwicker, Politics...sixth satire, he was suffering from the illness that delayed Cleomenes and forced him to ask Southerne to help complete the play. It...
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Mariological Memory in the Winter's Tale and Henry VIII
Journal article by Ruth Vanita; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 40, 2000
Subjects: Drama--16th century, Henry VII (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Shakespeare, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Winter's Tale (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...calls "old or newer torture,, (III.ii.177) recalls not only the...remembering the dead, and even Cleomenes, who brought the oracle, tells...the "hand of man hath done" (V.iii.17) (the use of the gendered...Perdita are termed "peerless"(V.iii.14; V.i.94). In the famous English...
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encyclopedia articles on: Cleomenes III  - 6 results

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Cleomenes III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CLEOMENES III c.260 219 b.c...conscious imitator of Agis III (see under Agis...people with the king. Cleomenes came to his downfall...allied with Antigonus III of Macedon, routed the Spartan army. Cleomenes fled to Egypt to the...
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Antigonus III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in 227 he proclaimed himself king. The attacks of Cleomenes III on the Achaean League caused its leader, Aratus...led his troops south in 224. In 222, Antigonus crushed Cleomenes at Sellasia in Laconea and took Corinth as his reward...
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Ephors
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...citizens. This annually elected board functioned from at least the 8th cent. b.c. until it was abolished (c.227 b.c.) by Cleomenes III. Later it was revived and lasted until a.d. 200. At its peak of authority the board of ephors was the organ of citizen...
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Aratus , Greek Statesman and General
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Macedonian domination of the Peloponnesus, for while fighting Cleomenes III of Sparta and the Aetolian League he changed his policy toward Macedonia and called in Antigonus III . See F. W. Walbank, Aratos of Sicyon (1933...
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Achaean League
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...were driven from Corinth. There was some promise of liberating all Greece, but unfortunately the interference of Cleomenes III of Sparta threatened the Achaean League, and in 227 b.c. he began a war. The Achaean League then requested (224 b...
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