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Biography on the Pausanias! Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus became the regent of his child-cousin Pleistarchus son of Leonidas, the hero of Thermopylae. He was a man of remarkable military ability who showed his worth in the battle of Plataea where he had to oppose an abler general than himself. But as Prof. Bury remarks, his talents as a politician were [...]