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Demaratus (Greek: Δημάρατος, Demaratos; Doric: Δαμάρατος, Damaratos) was a king of Sparta from around 515 BC to 491 BC. He was the 15th ruler of the Eurypontid dynasty and the firstborn son of King Ariston. During his reign, Demaratus is best known for his opposition to his co-ruler, King Cleomenes I of the Agiad ...
Demaratus (flourished 5th century bc) was a king of Sparta, together with Cleomenes I, who frustrated Cleomenes’ designs on both Athens and Aegina. He was consequently dethroned by Cleomenes on a false charge of illegitimacy, upon which he fled to Persia and was given some small cities in northwestern Asia Minor , which his descendants held ...
Demaratus (Greek: Δημάρατος), frequently called Demaratus of Corinth, was the father of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, the fifth King of Rome, the grandfather or great-grandfather of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh and last Roman king, and an ancestor of Lucius Junius Brutus and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, the first ...
Dec 15, 1994 · DEMARATUS (Attic Dēmárātos, Ionic Dēmá-rētos, Laconian Dāmárātos, lit., “wished by the people”), king of Sparta (from at least as early as 510 B.C.E.) who took refuge with Darius I (q.v.). He was a son of King Ariston, of the ancient lineage of the Eurypontidae.
Extract. *Eurypontid king of Sparta (reigned c. 515–491 bce ). He twice obstructed his Agiad co-king *Cleomenes (1) I, first on the invasion of Attica ( c. 506) and again when he prevented the arrest of the Medizing faction (see Medism) on *Aegina (491).
Demaratus is best seen as essentially a lay-figure, exemplifying Rome's traditional liberality in the matter of accepting foreigners (cf. Syll3 543) by his status as the effective patriarch of the Tarquin dynasty.
Demaratus. (Dêmaratos). (1) The son and successor of Ariston on the throne of Sparta, B.C. 516. He was deposed, through the intrigues of Cleomenes, his colleague, on the ground of his being illegitimate.
