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DEMARATUS (Doric Aaaparos, Ionic Arlapi ros)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 980 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM
DEMARATUS (Doric Aaaparos, Ionic Arlapi ros) , king of
Sparta
  of the Eurypontid line, successor of his father Ariston. He is known chiefly for his opposition to his colleague Cleomenes I. (q.v.) in his attempts to make Isagoras
tyrant
  in Athens and afterwards to punish Aegina for medizing. He did his utmost to bring Cleomenes into disfavour at
home
 . Thereupon Cleomenes urged
Leotychides
 , a relative and personal enemy of Demaratus, to claim the throne on the ground that the latter was not really the son of Ariston but of Agetus, his
mother
 's first husband. The Delphic oracle, under the influence of Cleomenes' bribes, pronounced in favour of
Leotychides
 , who became king (491 B.C.). Soon afterwards Demaratus fled to Darius, who gave him the cities of Pergamum, Teuthrania and. Halisarna, where his descendants were still ruling at the beginning of the 4th century (Xen.
Anabasis
 , ii. 1. 3, vii. 8. 17; Hellenica, iii. 1. 6); to these
980
Gambreum should perhaps be added (Athenaeus i. 29 f). He accompanied
Xerxes
  on his expedition to
Greece
 , but the stories told of the warning and advice which on several occasions he addressed to the king are scarcely historical.
See Herodotus v. 75, vi. 50-7o, vii. ; later writers either repro-duce or embellish his narrative (Pausanias iii. 4, 3-5, 7, 7-8; Diodorus xi. 6; Polyaenus ii. 2o;
Seneca
 , De benefciis, vi. 31, 4-I2). The story that he took part in the attack on Argos which was repulsed by Telesilla, the poetess, and the Argive women, can hardly be true (Plutarch, Mul. virt. 4; Polyaenus, Strat. viii. 33; G. Busolt, Griechische Geschichte, 563, note 4). (M. N. T.)


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