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Gorgo (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr ɡ oʊ /; 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]
7 Αυγ 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).
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.
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 (/ ˈɡɔrɡoʊ /; Greek: Γοργώ) (fl. 480 BC) was the daughter and the only known 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, Cleomenes' half-brother, who fought and died in the Battle of Thermopylae.
13 Αυγ 2016 · She was the father of King Cleomenes, the wife of King Leonidas, and the mother of King Pleistarchus, showing that she was truly a royal Spartan woman who has gone down in history as being a force to be reckoned with.
Gorgo eventually married Leonidas, her step-uncle, who succeeded to the Spartan throne ca. 490 BCE and Herodotus claims that Gorgo was the reason he was able to do so, as she inherited Cleomenes’ property upon his death and gave Leonidas greater claim (Hodkinson 1986, 395).
