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    Gorgo

    Title: Gorgo, Queen of Sparta
    Location: Sparta, Greece
    Born: BCE
    Died: c. 5th century BCE
    Occupation: Queen of Sparta
    Relationships:

    • Mother: Unkown
    • Father: Cleomenes I
    • Sibling(s): Unknown
    • Spouse/Lover(s): Leonidas I
    • Children: Pleistarchus

    Biography:

    Born in BCE the daughter of Cleomenes I, king of Sparta, and later wife to Leonidas I, king of Sparta and leader of the Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae during the Persian Wars, Gorgo is most remembered for her quick wit and wisdom (Cawkwell , ). As a high-born Spartan woman, Gorgo had the agency to speak her mind where women elsewhere in the Greek world could not, leaving historians to document several of her anecdotes. 

    Specifically, Herodotus describes an account where Aristagoras, a Milesian, was attempting to bribe Cleomenes I to go to war against the Persian king Darius on behalf of the Ionians, a Greek colony under the control of the Persian Empire. Seeing her father bending to Aristagoras’ will (and deep

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    Pausanias the Regent

    Spartan general and regent (died c. BC)

    For the geographer, see Pausanias (geographer). For the king, see Pausanias (king of Sparta). For other people named 'Pausanias', see Pausanias (disambiguation).

    Pausanias (Ancient Greek: Παυσανίας) was a Spartan regent and a general. In BC, as a leader of the Hellenic League's combined nation forces, he won a pivotal victory against the Achaemenid Empire in the Battle of Plataea. Despite his role in ending the Second Persian invasion of Greece, Pausanias subsequently fell beneath suspicion of conspiring with the Persian king Xerxes I. After an interval of repeated arrests and debates about his guilt, he was starved to death by his fellow Spartans. What is known of his life is largely according to Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Diodorus' Bibliotheca historica and a handful of other classical sources.

    Early life

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    Pausanias was from the royal house of the Agiads. Every male Spartan citizen ear

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    C. Pli'nius Secundus or the elder Plinius or Plinius the elder

    the celebrated author of the HistoriaNaturalis,was born A. D. 23, having reached the age of 56 at the time of his death, which took place in A. D. (Plin. Jun. Epist.) The question as to the place of his birth has been the subject of a voluminous and rather angry discussion between the champions of Verona and those of Novum Comum (the modern Como). That he was born at one or other of these two towns sees pretty certain; Hardouin's notion, that he was born at Rome, has nothing to support it. The claim of Comum seems to be, on the whole, the better founded of the two. In the life of Pliny ascribed to Suetonius, and by Eusebius, or his translator Jerome, he is styled Novocomensis. Another anonymous life of Pliny (apparently of late origin and of no authority) calls him a native of Verona; and it has been thought that the claim of Verona to be considered as his birth-place is confirmed by the fact that Pliny himself (