Acrotatus I

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Acrotatus I (Gr. Ακρότατος) was the son of Cleomenes II, king of Sparta. He incurred the displea­sure of a large party at Sparta by opposing the de­cree which was to release from infamy all who had fled from the battle in which Antipater defeated Agis in 331 BC.[1] He was thus glad to accept the offer of the Agrigentines when they sent to Sparta for assistance in 314 BC against Agathocles of Syracuse. He first sailed to Italy, and obtained assistance from Tarentum; but on his arrival at Agrigentum he acted with such cruelty and tyranny that the inhabitants rose against him, and com­pelled him to leave the city. He returned to Sparta, and died before the death of his father, which was in 309 BC. He left a son, Areus I, who succeeded Cleomenes.[2][3][4] And his grandson, Acrotatus II, succeeded to the throne after Areus.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), “Acrotatus (1)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, pp. 16 
  2. ^ Diodorus Siculus, xv. 70, 7.1
  3. ^ Pausanias, i. 1 3. § 3, iii. 6. § 1, 2
  4. ^ Plutarch Agis & Cleomenes, 3

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