Leotychidas
Leotychidas ( Doric Latychidas; Greek Λεωτυχίδας; * to 545 BC; † around 466 BC Chr./469 BC Tegea ) was a king of Sparta from the family of Eurypontidae. He ascended after the deposition of the Dama Ratos, with whom he was at enmity, in 491 BC the throne and served to about 476 Simultaneously with him ruled the Agiade Leonidas I.. Due to its involvement in the actions of Cleomenes against Aegina he was after death of his Mitkönigs accused by the Aegina.
He commanded in the Persian War 479 BC, the Greek fleet in the Battle of Mycale amphibious. The Athenian fleet commander Xanthippos, the father of Pericles, was subordinate to him. To 476 he was sent to a punishment campaign against the Persian minded Aleuadae in Thessaly. He returned empty-handed, what the outsiders historian Herodotus could only be explained by bribery. He was charged after his return to Sparta and fled before his punishment according to Tegea, where he died some years later.