Cleomenean War
Cleomenes III ascended the throne of Sparta in 236 BC or 235 BC, after deposing his father, Leonidas II. His accession ended a decade-long period of heightened conflict between the two royal families. The war was fought by Sparta and its ally, Elis, against the Aetolian League and Macedon. It ended in a Macedonian and Achaean victory.
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Cleomenes III ascended the throne of Sparta in 236 BC or 235 BC, after deposing his father, Leonidas II. His accession ended a decade-long period of heightened conflict between the two royal families. In 229 BC, the ephors sent Cleomenes to seize a town on the border with Megalopolis, the Achaeans declared war. The Achaean League summoned a meeting of her assembly and declared war against Sparta. The war was fought by Sparta and its ally, Elis, against the Aetolian League and Macedon. It ended in a Macedonian and AchaeAn victory. The Spartans were routed at Sellasia, where the Spartan king fled to the court of his ally, Ptolemy III of Egypt. He ultimately committed suicide in the wake of a failed revolt against the new Pharaoh, P tolemy IV. He was succeeded by his son, Sparta’s second king, Cleomenean II. He died in 235 BC and was buried in the temple of Artemisia in Laconia. He is buried next to his wife, who died in the same year as his father in a battle with Aratus of Sicyon, the strategos of the AchAEan League. His son was buried alongside his mother, who was buried near Belbina, in what is now the city of Elis. He had a son, Cleomene II, who became the last Spartan king, and died in 229 BC in the Battle of the Lysiad, near the town of Melitene.
The battle was fought between the Achaians and the Spartans, who were led by Antigonus III Doson, a member of the Macedonian royal family. The Macedonians were eventually defeated by the Sparta-Achaean alliance. In 228 BC, Cleomanes invaded Achaea, seizing control of Corinth and Argos, but was forced to retreat. He then captured the city Methydrium before ravaging the surrounding territory surrounding Argos. Around this time, an army under a new strategos, Aristantatus, accompanied by a new Spartan army, advanced on the Pallomachos, who had been elected in May 228 BC—to meet the Spartan army at Pallomachium. The Spartan army advanced on Pallomachus, who accompanied the 5,000-strong Spartan army on the battle. The two armies met at the battle of Pallomachia, and the Spartan forces won. The Peloponnese was then conquered by the Macedonian army, which was led by the king of Macedon, Antigonos III Dos on the eve of his death in 228 BC. In the aftermath of the battle, the Spartans regained control of Argos and Elis from the Ach Aeans. The Sparta king was killed by Aratus, who fled to Egypt, where he later died in a revolt against PtoLEmy IV, the Egyptian Pharaoh.
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