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Gorgo ( / ˈɡɔːrɡoʊ /; Greek: Γοργώ [ɡorɡɔ͜ɔ́]; fl. 480 BC) was a Spartan woman and wife to King Leonidas I (r. 489–480 BC). She was the daughter and the only known child of Cleomenes I, Leonidas' half-brother and King of Sparta (r. 520–490 BC). [1]
Aug 7, 2014 · Gorgo was the queen of the Greek city-state of Sparta, daughter of the king Cleomenes (r. 520-490 BCE), wife of King Leonidas (r. 490-480 BCE), and mother of King Pleistarchus (r. 480-458 BCE).
Jan 6, 2018 · Gorgo of Sparta. Daughter, Wife, and Mother of Spartan Kings. DianaHirsch / Getty Images. By. N.S. Gill. Updated on January 06, 2018. Gorgo was the only daughter of King Cleomenes I of Sparta (520-490). She was also his heir. Sparta had a pair of hereditary kings.
Gorgo, Queen of Sparta and wife of Leonidas, as quoted by Plutarch [1] Spartan women were famous in ancient Greece for seemingly having more freedom than women elsewhere in the Greek world. To contemporaries outside of Sparta, Spartan women had a reputation for promiscuity and controlling their husbands.
Queen Gorgo was a queen of Ancient Sparta. The daughter and only child of King Cleomenes I, she was raised from a young age to be a strong woman who was capable of ruling Sparta. King Cleomenes was said to have held her opinion in high regard and even heeded her advice from a young age.
Aug 5, 2019 · As Queen of Sparta and wife to legendary King Leonidas, Gorgo played an important role in the history of Greece. Herodotus did not bother to mention females in his writings, but Gorgo must have been an exceptional woman because she received high praise from the ancient historian.
The most remarkable thing about Gorgo, wife of King Leonidas I of Sparta, is that we know anything about her at all. Herodotus and other ancient Greek historians are far more likely to mention Persian queens than the wives of Greeks – not because Persian women were more powerful than their Greek counterparts but because Persians had several ...
Gorgo, Queen of Sparta. Gorgo (fl. 480 BC) was the daughter and the only child of Cleomenes I, King of Sparta (r. 520-490 BC) during the 6th and 5th centuries BC. She was the wife of King Leonidas I, who fought and died in the Battle of Thermopylae.
Born in 508 BCE the daughter of Cleomenes I, king of Sparta, and later wife to Leonidas I, king of Sparta and leader of the 300 Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae during the Persian Wars, Gorgo is most remembered for her quick wit and wisdom (Cawkwell 1993, 523).
Jan 11, 2010 · Gorgo, Queen of Sparta. January 11, 2010. Gorgo was the daughter of one Spartan King, wife to another, and mother to a third. But what she was really famous for was her deep wisdom, which she used to advise the kings of Sparta, beginning at the tender age of 8. Her father was King Cleomenes.
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