 Two events in Herodotus show Gorgo give council to her father Cleomenes I and the Spartans.Herodotus says that Gorgo, aged around eight years old, managed to stop her father, Cleomenes I, being bribed by Aristagoras of Miletus to help out in the Ionian Revolt.The second event that Gorgo aided Sparta was when the Spartans were sent a tablet by Demaratus, who was at the time in Susa, that was hiding a secret message.