Pleistoanax (488 BC-) was King of Sparta from 458 to 409 BC, succeeding Pleistarchus and preceding Pausanias.
Biography[]
Pleistoanax was born in 488 BC, the son of the Spartan regent and general Pausanias, who was disgraced for conspiring with Xerxes. He was anxious for peace with the Delian League during the First Peloponnesian War, and he was accused of accepting a bribe from the Athenian leader Pericles to withdraw from the plain of Eleusis in Attica in 446 BC. He was exiled as a result, but he was recalled in 428 BC. He was still blamed for Spartan disasters, so he advocated for peace to bring an end to the disasters. His son Pausanias succeeded him as King.
Gallery[]
Pleistoanax at the Battle of Laurion