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Pausanias the Regent

Spartan general and regent (died c. 477 BC)

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Pausanias was a Spartan regent and a general. In 479 BC, as a leader of the Hellenic League's combined land 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 under 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's History of the Peloponnesian War, Diodorus's Bibliotheca historica and a handful of other classical sources.

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Place of birth
Sparta wd
Place of death
Sparta wd
Citizenship
Sparta wd
Occupation
military leader, military personnel wd

Positions held wd

  • regent

Questions

What positions has Pausanias the Regent held?
Positions held by Pausanias the Regent include: regent.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Pausanias the Regent · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q314518 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Pausanias in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.jpg by Jona Lendering (CC0)

Last updated · facts checked 10 November 2026

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