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LEOTYCHIDES , Spartan See also: king, of the Eurypontid
See also: family, was descended from See also: Theopompus through his younger son Anaxandridas (See also: Herod. viii
.
131), and in 491 B.C. succeeded Demaratus (q.v.), whose title to the See also: throne he had with Cleomenes' aid successfully challenged
.
He took See also: part in Cleomenes' second expedition to See also: Aegina, on which ten hostages were seized and handed over to the Athenians for safe custody: for this he narrowly escaped being surrendered to the Aeginetans after Cleomenes' See also: death
.
In the spring of 479 we find him in command of the See also: Greek See also: fleet of no See also: ships, first at Aegina and afterwards at See also: Delos
.
In See also: August he attacked the Persian position at Mycale on the See also: coast of See also: Asia Minor opposite See also: Samos, inflicted a crushing defeat on the See also: land-army, and annihilated the fleet which was See also: drawn up on -the See also: shore
.
Soon afterwards he sailed home with the Peloponnesians, leaving the Athenians to prosecute the siege of Sestos
.
In 476 he led an army to See also: Thessaly to punish the Aleuadae of Larisa for the aid they had rendered to the Persians and to strengthen Spartan influence in See also: northern See also: Greece
.
After a series of successful engagements he accepted a bribe from the enemy to withdraw
.
For this he was brought to trial at See also: Sparta, and to save his See also: life fled to the See also: temple of Athena Alea at See also: Tegea
.
See also: Sentence of exile was passed, his See also: house was razed and his See also: grand-
son Archidamus II. ascended the throne (Herod. vi
.
65-87,
ix
.
90-114; See also: Thucydides i
.
89; See also: Pausanias iii
.
4
.
3
.
7
.
9-10;
Plutarch, De malignitate Herodoti, 21, p
.
859 D; Diodorus xi, 34-37)
.
According to Diodorus (xi
.
48) Leotychides reigned twenty-two, his successor Archidamus See also: forty-two years
.
The See also: total duration of the two reigns, sixty-four years, we know to be correct, for Leotychides came to the throne in 491 and Archidamus (q.v.) died in 427
.
On this basis, then, Leotychides's exile would fall in 469 and the Thessalian expedition in that or the preceding See also: year (so E
.
See also: Meyer, Geschichte See also: des Altertunis, iii
.
§ 287)
.
But Diodorus is not consistent with himself ; he attributes (xi . 48) Leotychides's death to the year 476–475 and he records (xii . 35) Archidamus's death in 434–433, though he introduces him in the following years at the See also: head of the Peloponnesian army (xii
.
42, 47, 52)
.
Further, he says expressly
that Leotychides EreaeGTnaev &peas Er~7 e1Kooa Kai 56o, i.e. he lived
twenty-two years after his accession
.
The twenty-two years, then, may include the See also: time which elapsed between his exile and his death
.
In that See also: case Leotychides died in 469, and 476–475 may be the year in which his reign, though not his life, ended
.
This date seems, from what we know of the See also: political situation in general, to be more probable than the later one for the Thessalian See also: campaign
.
G
.
Busolt, Griech
.
Geschichte, iii
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83, note; J
.
B . See also: Bury, See also: History of Greece, p
.
326; G
.
See also: Grote, History of Greece, new edition 1888, iv
.
349, note; also abridged edition 1907, p
.
273, note 3
.
Beloch's view (Griech
.
Geschichte, i
.
455, note 2) that the expedition took place in 476, the trial and See also: flight in 469, is not generally accepted
.
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