can be detected, because the king's second wife was one of Chilon's relations. The second marriage rapidly produced a son, the future king Cleomenes I, but then Anaxandridas returned to his first wife, and she then bore him three children: Dorieus, Leonidas, and Cleombrotus. The name of Dorieus ("the Dorian") is significant, it likely shows that Anaxandridas rebuffed Chilon's pro-Achaean policy by recalling his Dorian origins. During his reign Cleomenes rejected his Dorian identity and instead claimed to be an Achaean, but was frequently opposed by his half-brothers. Anaxandridas died in 524 and was succeeded by his son Cleomenes I. References Bibliography Paul Cartledge, Sparta and Lakonia, A Regional History 1300–362 BC, London, Routledge, 2002 (originally published in 1979). W. G. Forrest, A History of Sparta, New York, Norton, 1986. David Harvey, "The Length of the Reigns of Kleomenes", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Bd. 58, H. 3 (2009), pp. 356–357. G. L. Huxley, Early Sparta, London, Faber & Faber, 1962. Mait Kõiv, Ancient Tradition and Early Greek History, The Origins of States in Early-Archaic Sparta, Argos and Corinth, Tallinn, Avita, 2003. 6th-century BC rulers 6th-century BC Spartans Agiad kings of Sparta Year of birth unknown 520s BC deaths