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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 980 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEMARATUS (Doric Aaµaparos, Ionic Arlµapi See also:ros)  , See also:king of See also:Sparta of the Eurypontid See also:line, successor of his See also:father Ariston . He is known chiefly for his opposition to his colleague Cleomenes I . (q.v.) in his attempts to make Isagoras See also:tyrant in See also:Athens and afterwards to punish See also:Aegina for medizing . He did his utmost to bring Cleomenes into disfavour at See also:home . Thereupon Cleomenes urged See also:Leotychides, a relative and See also:personal enemy of See also:Demaratus, to claim the See also:throne on the ground that the latter was not really the son of Ariston but of Agetus, his See also:mother's first See also:husband . The Delphic See also:oracle, under the See also:influence of Cleomenes' bribes, pronounced in favour of Leotychides, who became king (491 B.C.) . Soon afterwards Demaratus fled to See also:Darius, who gave him the cities of See also:Pergamum, Teuthrania and . Halisarna, where his descendants were still ruling at the beginning of the 4th See also:century (Xen . See also:Anabasis, ii . 1 . 3, vii . 8 .

17; Hellenica, iii . 1 . 6); to these 980 Gambreum should perhaps be added (See also:

Athenaeus i . 29 f) . He accompanied See also:Xerxes on his expedition to See also:Greece, but the stories told of the warning and See also:advice which on several occasions he addressed to the king are scarcely See also:historical . See See also:Herodotus v . 75, vi . 50-7o, vii . ; later writers either repro-duce or embellish his narrative (See also:Pausanias iii . 4, 3-5, 7, 7-8; Diodorus xi . 6; See also:Polyaenus ii . 2o; See also:Seneca, De benefciis, vi .

31, 4-I2) . The See also:

story that he took See also:part in the attack on See also:Argos which was repulsed by See also:Telesilla, the poetess, and the Argive See also:women, can hardly be true (See also:Plutarch, Mul. virt . 4; Polyaenus, Strat. viii . 33; G . Busolt, Griechische Geschichte, 563, See also:note 4) . (M . N .

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