Anaxander

Anaxandros (Greek Ἀνάξανδρος = ruler of men; Latin Anaxander ), the son of Eurykrates, in Greek mythology, was a king of Sparta from the House of Agiaden. He reigned over Laconia and Messenia. With his wife he had a son Leandris Eurykratidas.

Second Messenian War

In the fourth year of the 23rd Olympiad ( 685/4 BC) conquered Messenians revolted. Aristomenes had Aristocrates, king of Orchomenus and Pantaleon, the commander of Pisa ( Elis ) as allies. In two battles Anaxandros, the support of Zeuxidamos or Anaxidamos subject, had the kings of the Spartan home of Eurypontidae.

Only after 17 years, 668/7 BC, the Spartans were able to achieve victory and expel the Messenians. Only the coastal cities remained in Messenian hand. Among the women he captured led home to Kleo, the priestess of Thetis was. These elected Leandris to her slave. She noted that Kleo led the cult statue of the goddess with them and therefore they had built a Thetisheiligtum in Sparta to store therein the wood pattern.

After Anaxandros ' death, his son Eurykratidas became his successor.

Swell

• Herodotus, Histories, 7, 204
• Pausanias, traveling in Greece, 3, 3, 4-5; 3, 14, 4; 4, 15, 3; 4, 16, 2-3; 4, 16, 8; 4, 22, 5 - 6
• Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica.
• Strabo, Geographica, 362