PLEISTOANAX

'Pleistoanax' (reigned 459 BC – 409 BC) was an Agiad King of Sparta. He was most anxious for Peace during the so-called First Peloponnesian War. He was exiled in 446 BC, charged by the Spartans with taking a bribe, probably from Pericles (noted as "10 talents necessary expenses" in Athens' funds), to withdraw from the plain of Eleusis in Attica after leading the Peloponnesian forces there following the revolts of Euboea and Megara from the Athenian Empire. Some scholars (e.g. Walker, Meyer, Beloch, Busolt) doubt this or at least agree that it is not enough info to explain the happenings^[1]. Also some believe that a more probable reason for Pleistoanax and his advisor Cleandridas could be that Pericles offered good terms for a peace (e.g. later there was a treaty between Sparta and Athens)^[2].
In 428 BC, he was recalled and restored in obedience to the Delphic oracle's advice. His enemies still blamed him for Spartan disasters, so Pleistoanax advocated peace to bring an end to the disasters.

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1. Donald Kagan, ''The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War''. page 124f. Ithaca/New York 1969, ISBN 0801495563.
2. Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta in Savage Conflict 431-404 BC, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003 (First published in the USA by Penguin Putnam 2003), page 17f.