# 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.

## Quick facts

- **Place of birth:** Sparta ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314518#P19))
- **Place of death:** Sparta ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314518#P20))
- **Citizenship:** Sparta ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314518#P27))
- **Occupation:** military leader; military personnel ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314518#P106))
- **Positions held:** regent ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314518#P39))

## Questions

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

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## Sources

- [Wikipedia (English): Pausanias the Regent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias_the_Regent) — [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- [Wikidata item Q314518](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q314518) — [CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- [Image: Pausanias in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.jpg by Jona Lendering (CC0)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pausanias_in_the_Capitoline_Museums,_Rome.jpg)

## Licence and attribution

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## Cite this page

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