query: child cleonymus of sparta
supports: Acrotatus (died 262 BC) was an Agiad King of Sparta from 265 to 262 BC. He was the son of Areus I, and grandson of Acrotatus I. Cleonymus was a member of the Spartan royal family of the Agiads . He was the second son of Cleomenes II and a pretender to the Spartan throne . He did not succeed his father ( died 309/308 BC ) , allegedly because he was violent and tyrannic . His nephew Areus I became new king instead . Hence , he nursed a grudge against his fellow Spartans . To help Taranto against the Lucani , Cleonymus went as mercenary leader to southern Italy with the backing of the Spartan administration ( 303 BC ) . There are two different accounts of his Italian expedition ; one written by Diodorus Siculus and one by Livy . But the relations between the two sources are unclarified . The historian Thomas Lenschau supposes that they describe two different campaigns of Cleonymus : that one described by Diodorus Siculus would have taken place in 303 BC and that one described by Livy in 302 BC. According to Diodorus Siculus Cleonymus raised such a large army that the Lucani immediately concluded peace . Then the Spartan prince took the city of Metaponto and sailed to Corcyra which island he also quickly captured . Learning that Taranto and other cities had broken with him he sailed back and was at first successful , but then he was defeated at a night attack . Since a lot of his ships were destroyed by a storm at the same time he had to withdraw to Corcyra ( 303/302 BC ) . Probably in the next year ( 302 BC ) Cleonymus returned to the Italian peninsula and -- according to Livy -- first conquered a city called Thuriae , which is not exactly localized . But Roman armies forced him to go back to his ships . He then sailed to the north across the Adriatic Sea and landed at the coast of the Veneti . From the mouth of the Meduacus ( now Brenta River ) he sailed upstream to the country of Patavium ( now Padua ) and raided the nearby villages . But the natives defeated him and he suffered great losses -- allegedly four - fifths of his ships were destroyed . Cleonymus had to leave the territory of Patavium . It is unknown how his campaign ended . Cleonymus is next mentioned in 293 BC. By then he seems to have returned to Sparta and was now sent to Boeotia to help the inhabitants against Demetrius I Poliorcetes . But when this diadoch arrived with an army Cleonymus withdrew . As an older man Cleonymus married the beautiful Chilonis as his second wife . Chilonis was the daughter of Leotychidas , who was a member of the other Spartan royal family of the Eurypontids . However , Chilonis loved Acrotatus II , the grand - nephew of Cleonymus . Deeply offended , Cleonymus left Sparta and , in 272 BC , persuaded Pyrrhus to back his claim to the Spartan throne . Pyrrhus besieged Sparta , confident that he could take the city with ease , however , the Spartans , with even the women taking part in the defense , succeeded in beating off Pyrrhus ' attacks . At this point Pyrrhus received an appeal for help from his supporters in Argos which was being attacked by Antigonus Gonatas and he called off the attack . Cleonymus does not appear in the sources after this event any more so that his further lot is unknown . Agesipolis II (died 369 BC), son of the king Cleombrotus I, succeeded his father and reigned as Agiad King of Sparta. His rule was exceedingly brief, from, at most, 371 until his death in 369 BC. He was succeeded by his brother Cleomenes II. Cleombrotus I (died July 6, 371 BC) was a Spartan king of the Agiad line, reigning from 380 BC until 371 BC. Little is known of Cleombrotus' early life. Son of Pausanias, he became king of Sparta after the death of his brother Agesipolis I in 380 BC, and led the allied Spartan-Peloponnesian army against the Thebans under Epaminondas in the Battle of Leuctra. His death and the utter defeat of his army led to the end of Spartan dominance in ancient Greece. Cleombrotus was succeeded by his son Agesipolis II. His other son was Cleomenes II. Leonidas II (Greek:  B, "Lion's son", "Lion-like"), was the 28th Agiad King of Sparta from 254 to 235 BC. He was raised at the Persian Court, and according to Plutarch's Life of Agis IV, he married a Persian woman. According to other sources, this non-Spartan wife was actually a Seleucid, possibly the daughter of Seleucus I Nicator by his Persian wife Apama. She was therefore not fully Persian, but half-Macedonian and half-Persian. His Persian-influenced lifestyle, his non-Spartan (therefore foreign) wife and his half-Spartan children would all be made issues by the ephor Lysander, the co-king Agis IV and their supporters. Areus I (died 265 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 309 to 265 BC, who died in battle near Corinth during the Chremonidean War. He was the grandson of Cleomenes II and was succeeded by his son Acrotatus II. Cleomenes II (died 309 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 369 to 309 BC. The son of Cleombrotus I, he succeeded his brother Agesipolis II. He was the father of Acrotatus I, the father of Areus I, and of Cleonymus, the father of Leonidas II. Acrotatus I (Gr. ) was the son of Cleomenes II, king of Sparta. He incurred the displeasure of an influential group of Spartan citizens by opposing the decree which was to release from infamy all who had fled from the battle in which Antipater defeated Agis in 331 BC. He was thus glad to accept the offer from the Agrigentines who had asked Sparta for assistance in 314 BC against Agathocles of Syracuse. 
candidates: acrotatus i agathocles agesipolis antipater areus i cleombrotus cleomenes cleonymus leonidas ii pausanias seleucus i nicator sparta
answer: leonidas ii