king of the Lacedaemonians from -491 to -480. Biography Leonidas belongs to the Agiades family. He is the youngest son of King Anaxandridas II and the successor of his brother Cleomenes I. He marries Gorgô, daughter of the latter. When the Persians entered Greece, with an army 250,000 strong, a c
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