Cleombrotus, regent of Sparta between 480 and 479 BC. He was a member of the Agiad family, the son of Anaxandridas II and the brother of Cleomenes I and of Leonidas I. When the latter died, he became the tutor of his nephew Pleistarchus, son of Leonidas, and leader of the Greek infantry at the beginning of the Second Medic war. He was the father of Pausanias. Sparta was an important Greek city-state in the Peloponnesus. ... The Persian invasion of Greece in 480-479 BC May — King Xerxes I of Persia marches from Sardis and onto Thrace and Macedonia. ... 479 pr. ... Anaxandridas II (Anaxandrides, Greek Αναξανδριδης) was a king of Sparta in c. ... Cleomenes (Eng. ... For other uses, see Leonidas (disambiguation). ... Pleistarchus (d. ... Pausanias (Greek = Παυσανίας) was a Spartan general of the 5th century BCE. He was the nephew of Leonidas I and served as regent after his uncles death, as Leonidas son, Pleistarchus was still under-age. ...