Pleistoanax, also spelled Plistoanax, (Greek: Πλειστοάναξ) was Agiad king of Sparta from 458 to 409 BC. He was the leader of the peace party in Sparta at a time of violent confrontations against Athens for the hegemony over Greece.
The son of Pausanias, Pleistoanax was still a minor in 458 BC, so his uncle Nicomedes acted as regent. His first recorded action was the invasion of Athens in 446 BC as part of the First Peloponnesian War (460–445 BC), but he chose instead to negotiate with Pericles a settlement that became the Thirty Years' Peace. However, Pleistoanax was sued in Sparta for his failure to take Athens and went into exile in Arcadia to avoid punishment. He lived on the sacred ground of Zeus in Mt. Lykaion for the next 18 years.
The death of the rival king Archidamus II in 427 enabled his return to Sparta, while the city was again at war against Athens in the Second Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC). Pleistoanax renewed his efforts to make peace with Athens, which was finally concluded in 421 (as the Peace of Nicias).
Pleistoanax, also spelled Plistoanax, (Greek: Πλειστοάναξ) was Agiad king of Sparta from 458 to 409 BC. He was the leader of the peace party in Sparta...
Pleistarchus was married. He died without an heir, and was succeeded by Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias. He had no known surviving relatives after his death...
were exhausted and ready for peace. The negotiations were started by Pleistoanax, King of Sparta, and Nicias, an Athenian general. The most amicable proposal...
Pausanias served as regent of Sparta. Pausanias was also the father of Pleistoanax who later became king. Pausanias' other sons were Cleomenes and Nasteria...
Cleombrotus and Alkathoa, regent of his nephew Pleistoanax in 458. He won the Battle of Tanagra in 457. Pleistoanax, first son of Pausanias the regent, king...
bribery, Pericles persuaded the Spartan king Pleistoanax to lead his army home. Back in Sparta, Pleistoanax would later be prosecuted for failing to press...
Ephesian, Persian, and Syracusan force. Pausanias succeeds his father Pleistoanax as Agiad king of Sparta. The city of Rhodes is founded. Taking advantage...
appearance, for the first time in 12 years, of a Spartan army under King Pleistoanax in Attica. The threat from the Spartan army leads Pericles to arrange...
Peloponnesian League) over Megara. Nicomedes of Sparta, regent for King Pleistoanax, leads an army of 11,500 hoplites into Boeotia to help Thebes put down...
the young Agiad king Pleistoanax during the early part of the latter's reign. According to Plutarch, both Cleandrides and Pleistoanax were banished from...
Nicias, the leader of the aristocratic and peace party in Athens and Pleistoanax, King of Sparta, negotiate the Peace of Nicias between Athens and Sparta...
century BC; he was the son of Cleandridas, who was the adviser of King Pleistoanax and had been expelled from Sparta for accepting Athenian bribes in 446...
calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Pleistoanax succeeds Pleistarchus as king of Sparta. Pericles continues Ephialtes'...
Pleistarchus First Peloponnesian War begins c. 459 – 445 BC, 426 – 409 BC Pleistoanax Second Peloponnesian War begins c. 445 – 426 BC, 409 – 395 BC Pausanias...
royal Agiad dynasty. He was a regent of Sparta during the minority of Pleistoanax, the son of his brother Pausanias. Nicomedes was the son of Cleombrotus...
names as Hipponax ("king of horses"), Anaxagoras ("king of the agora"), Pleistoanax ("king of the multitude"), Anaximander ("king of the estate"), Anaximenes...
Ajatashartu to become king of Magadha. Third king of Haryanka Dynasty. 459 BC: Pleistoanax succeeds his father Pleistarchus as king of Sparta. 459 BC: Destruction...
exclusively as a component in compound personal names (e.g., Anaxagóras, Pleistoánax) and is still in use in Modern Greek in the description of the anáktoron...
Ducetius, Hellenised leader of the Siculi (according to Diodorus Siculus). Pleistoanax succeeds Pleistarchus as king of Sparta. Pericles continues Ephialtes'...
Nicias decided to seek peace between all the warring states. Nicias, and Pleistoanax, King of Sparta, negotiated in 421 BC the Peace of Nicias between Athens...
seer Hegesistratus and the kings Leotychides, and Pausanias, son of Pleistoanax. In the Peloponnesian War the Tegeatae were the firm allies of the Spartans...
appearance, for the first time in 12 years, of a Spartan army under King Pleistoanax in Attica. The threat from the Spartan army leads Pericles to arrange...
Nicias, the leader of the aristocratic and peace party in Athens and Pleistoanax, King of Sparta, negotiate the Peace of Nicias between Athens and Sparta...
King of Salamis, r. 420–410 BC Evagoras, King of Salamis, r. 410–374 BC Pleistoanax (Agaid king r. 458–401 BC) and Agis II (Eurypontid king r. 427–400 BC)...
Peloponnese for accepting an Athenian bribe as an advisor of the Spartan king Pleistoanax. Taranto supported the Peloponnesian side against Athens in the Peloponnesian...
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