Person
Pausanias
Spartan general
Pausanias (died c. 470 BCE) is a Spartan general of the 5th century BCE.
He is a scion of the royal house of the Agiads but not in the direct line of succession himself: the son of Cleombrotus and nephew of Leonidas I, serving as regent after the latter's death, since Leonidas' son Pleistarchus is still under-age.
Pausanias is also the father of Pleistoanax, who later becomes king, and Cleomenes.
Pausanias is responsible for the Greek victory over Mardonius and the Persians at the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC, and is the leader of the Hellenic League created to resist Persian aggression during the Greco-Persian Wars.